Memoirs of Hon. Thomas Lindall Winthrop, LL.D.
Author : George Folsom
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Page : 548 pages
File Size : 14,97 MB
Release : 1857
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Author : George Folsom
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Page : 548 pages
File Size : 14,97 MB
Release : 1857
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Author : American Antiquarian Society
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Page : 550 pages
File Size : 39,27 MB
Release : 1857
Category : United States
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Author : Nathaniel Paine
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 24,21 MB
Release : 1876
Category : America
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Page : 562 pages
File Size : 37,56 MB
Release : 1857
Category : United States
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Author : John Adams VINTON
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Page : 628 pages
File Size : 48,26 MB
Release : 1864
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Page : 616 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 1858
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Author : Jared Sparks
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Page : 638 pages
File Size : 40,39 MB
Release : 1858
Category : American fiction
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Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.
Author : Massachusetts Historical Society
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Page : 628 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Massachusetts
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Author : Daniel T. Rodgers
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 21,96 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : 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.
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Page : 554 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 1892
Category : France
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