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Hardcover As a City on a Hill: The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon Book

ISBN: 0691181594

ISBN13: 9780691181592

As a City on a Hill: The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon

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How an obscure Puritan sermon came to be seen as a founding document of American identity and exceptionalism

"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...

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