Memoirs of Hon. Thomas Lindall Winthrop, LL.D.
Author | : George Folsom |
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Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1857 |
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Author | : George Folsom |
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Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1857 |
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Author | : Daniel T. Rodgers |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691210551 |
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.
Author | : American Antiquarian Society |
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Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Robert Charles Winthrop |
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Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1886 |
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Author | : Massachusetts Historical Society |
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Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Massachusetts |
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Author | : Robert Charles Winthrop |
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Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Charles Chauncy |
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Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1809 |
Genre | : Massachusetts |
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For the statement above quoted, also for full bibliographical information regarding this publication, and for the contents of the volumes [1st ser.] v. 1- 7th series, v. 5, cf. Griffin, Bibl. of Amer. hist. society. 2d edition, 1907, p. 346-360.
Author | : American Antiquarian Society |
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Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Astor Library |
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Total Pages | : 1144 |
Release | : 1888 |
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