City on a Hill

A fresh, original history of America's national narratives, told through the loss, recovery, and rise of one influential Puritan sermon from 1630 to the present dayIn this illuminating book, Abram Van Engen shows how the phrase "e;City on a Hill,"e; from a 1630 sermon by Massachusetts Bay governor John Winthrop, shaped the story of American exceptionalism in the twentieth century. By tracing the...