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For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill," John Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans at New England's founding in 1630. More than three centuries later, Ronald Reagan remade that passage into a timeless celebration of American promise. How were Winthrop's long-forgotten words reinvented as a central statement of American identity and exceptionalism? In As a City on a Hill, leading American intellectual historian Daniel Rodgers tells the surprising story of one of the most celebrated documents in the canon of the American idea. In doing so, he brings to life the ideas Winthrop's text carried in its own time and the sharply different yearnings that have been attributed to it since. As a City on a Hill shows how much more malleable, more saturated with vulnerability, and less distinctly American Winthrop's "Model of Christian Charity" was than the document that twentieth-century Americans invented. Across almost four centuries, Rodgers traces striking shifts in the meaning of Winthrop's words--from Winthrop's own anxious reckoning with the scrutiny of the world, through Abraham Lincoln's haunting reference to this "almost chosen people," to the "city on a hill" that African Americans hoped to construct in Liberia, to the era of Donald Trump. As a City on a Hill reveals the circuitous, unexpected ways Winthrop's words came to lodge in American consciousness. At the same time, the book offers a probing reflection on how nationalism encourages the invention of "timeless" texts to straighten out the crooked realities of the past.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Daniel T. Rodgers |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Release |
: 2020-10-06 |
File |
: 366 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780691210551 |
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A sweeping history of American cities and towns, and the utopian aspirations that shaped them, by one of America’s leading urban planners and scholars. The first European settlers saw America as a paradise regained. The continent seemed to offer a God-given opportunity to start again and build the perfect community. Those messianic days are gone. But as Alex Krieger argues in City on a Hill, any attempt at deep understanding of how the country has developed must recognize the persistent and dramatic consequences of utopian dreaming. Even as ideals have changed, idealism itself has for better and worse shaped our world of bricks and mortar, macadam, parks, and farmland. As he traces this uniquely American story from the Pilgrims to the “smart city,” Krieger delivers a striking new history of our built environment. The Puritans were the first utopians, seeking a New Jerusalem in the New England villages that still stand as models of small-town life. In the Age of Revolution, Thomas Jefferson dreamed of citizen farmers tending plots laid out across the continent in a grid of enlightened rationality. As industrialization brought urbanization, reformers answered emerging slums with a zealous crusade of grand civic architecture and designed the vast urban parks vital to so many cities today. The twentieth century brought cycles of suburban dreaming and urban renewal—one generation’s utopia forming the next one’s nightmare—and experiments as diverse as Walt Disney’s EPCOT, hippie communes, and Las Vegas. Krieger’s compelling and richly illustrated narrative reminds us, as we formulate new ideals today, that we chase our visions surrounded by the glories and failures of dreams gone by.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Alex Krieger |
Publisher |
: Belknap Press |
Release |
: 2019-10-29 |
File |
: 497 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674987999 |
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The American history of the 'city on a hill' metaphor from its Puritan beginnings to its role in Reagan's American civil religion and beyond.
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: History |
Author |
: Richard M. Gamble |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Release |
: 2012-05-31 |
File |
: 219 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781441162328 |
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: |
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: Edward Augustus Freeman |
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: |
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: 1894 |
File |
: 608 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: BML:37001103958380 |
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: 1887 |
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: 898 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: BSB:BSB11482159 |
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stories behind the music that changed our lives forever. ---book jacket.
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: Music |
Author |
: Tori Taff |
Publisher |
: Thomas Nelson |
Release |
: 2006 |
File |
: 228 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 1591452104 |
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Genre |
: Literary Collections |
Author |
: Stuart H. Cook |
Publisher |
: Zondervan Publishing Company |
Release |
: 1993 |
File |
: 452 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0551022450 |
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: Bible |
Author |
: John William McGarvey |
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: |
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: 1881 |
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: 714 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: MINN:31951001779733Y |
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: Bible |
Author |
: William Smith |
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: |
Release |
: 1888 |
File |
: 920 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: STANFORD:36105012604182 |
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: Bible |
Author |
: John Mason Neale |
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: |
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: 1874 |
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: 542 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: IOWA:31858033815469 |