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Author |
: Frances FitzGerald |
Publisher |
: Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 428 |
Release |
: 1986-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0671552090 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780671552091 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis CITIES ON A HILL by : Frances FitzGerald
"We must consider that we shall be A City Upon a Hill, the eyes of all people upon us," John Winthrop told his Pilgrim community crossing the Atlantic to found the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Four centuries later, Americans are still building Cities Upon a Hill. In Cities on a Hill Pulitzer Prize-winner Frances FitzGerald explores this often eccentric, sometimes prophetic inclination in America. With characteristic wit and insight she examines four radically different communities -- a fundamentalist church, a guru-inspired commune, a Sunbelt retirement city, and a gay activist community -- all embodying this visionary drive to shake the past and build anew. Frances FitzGerald here gives eloquent voice and definition to a quintessentially American impulse. It is a resonant work of literary imagination and journalistic precision.
Author |
: Alex Krieger |
Publisher |
: Belknap Press |
Total Pages |
: 497 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674987999 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674987993 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis City on a Hill by : Alex Krieger
From the pilgrims to Las Vegas, hippie communes to the smart city, utopianism has shaped American landscapes. The Puritan small town was the New Jerusalem. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of rational farm grids. Reformers tackled slums through crusades of civic architecture. To understand American space, Alex Krieger looks to the drama of utopian ideals.
Author |
: Connilyn Cossette |
Publisher |
: Baker Books |
Total Pages |
: 349 |
Release |
: 2018-02-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781493413614 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1493413619 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Light on the Hill (Cities of Refuge Book #1) by : Connilyn Cossette
Seven years ago, Moriyah was taken captive in Jericho and branded with the mark of the Canaanite gods. Now the Israelites are experiencing peace in their new land, but Moriyah has yet to find her own peace. Because of the shameful mark on her face, she hides behind her veil at all times and the disdain of the townspeople keeps her from socializing. And marriage prospects were out of the question . . . until now. Her father has found someone to marry her, and she hopes to use her love of cooking to impress the man and his motherless sons. But when things go horribly wrong, Moriyah is forced to flee. Seeking safety at one of the newly-established Levitical cities of refuge, she is wildly unprepared for the dangers she will face, and the enemies--and unexpected allies--she will encounter on her way.
Author |
: Thomas K. Ogorzalek |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190668877 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190668873 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cities on the Hill by : Thomas K. Ogorzalek
Over the second half of the 20th century, American politics was reorganized around race as the tenuous New Deal coalition frayed and eventually collapsed. What drove this change? In The Cities on the Hill, Thomas Ogorzalek argues that the answer lies not in the sectional divide between North and South, but in the differences between how cities and rural areas govern themselves and pursue their interests on the national stage. Using a wide range of evidence from Congress and an original dataset measuring the urbanicity of districts over time, he shows how the trajectory of partisan politics in America today was set in the very beginning of the New Deal. Both rural and urban America were riven with local racial conflict, but beginning in the 1930s, city leaders became increasingly unified in national politics and supportive of civil rights, changes that sowed the seeds of modern liberalism. As Ogorzalek powerfully demonstrates, the red and blue shades of contemporary political geography derive more from rural and urban perspectives than clean state or regional lines-but local institutions can help bridges the divides that keep Americans apart.
Author |
: Alan Rogers |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1892724545 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781892724540 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Boston, City on a Hill by : Alan Rogers
Author |
: Richard M. Gamble |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 219 |
Release |
: 2012-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781441162328 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1441162321 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis In Search of the City on a Hill by : Richard M. Gamble
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.
Author |
: Sara Yael Hirschhorn |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 315 |
Release |
: 2017-05-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674979178 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674979176 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis City on a Hilltop by : Sara Yael Hirschhorn
Since 1967, more than 60,000 Jewish-Americans have settled in the territories captured by the State of Israel during the Six Day War. Comprising 15 percent of the settler population today, these immigrants have established major communities, transformed domestic politics and international relations, and committed shocking acts of terrorism. They demand attention in both Israel and the United States, but little is known about who they are and why they chose to leave America to live at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this deeply researched, engaging work, Sara Yael Hirschhorn unsettles stereotypes, showing that the 1960s generation who moved to the occupied territories were not messianic zealots or right-wing extremists but idealists engaged in liberal causes. They did not abandon their progressive heritage when they crossed the Green Line. Rather, they saw a historic opportunity to create new communities to serve as a beacon—a “city on a hilltop”—to Jews across the globe. This pioneering vision was realized in their ventures at Yamit in the Sinai and Efrat and Tekoa in the West Bank. Later, the movement mobilized the rhetoric of civil rights to rebrand itself, especially in the wake of the 1994 Hebron massacre perpetrated by Baruch Goldstein, one of their own. On the fiftieth anniversary of the 1967 war, Hirschhorn illuminates the changing face of the settlements and the clash between liberal values and political realities at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Author |
: Frances FitzGerald |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 1980 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015009399166 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis America Revised by : Frances FitzGerald
"Almost all of the book appeared initially in the New Yorker." Bibliography: p. [227]-240.
Author |
: Daniel T. Rodgers |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 366 |
Release |
: 2020-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691210551 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691210551 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis As a City on a Hill by : Daniel T. Rodgers
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 |
: Lawrence W. Kennedy |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015020870807 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Planning the City Upon a Hill by : Lawrence W. Kennedy
An account of Boston's planning history. Nine chapters detail the key developments that shaped each period of Boston's growth, focusing on the post-World War II era. The text describes the process and significance of all the major projects - from the first wharves to the latest skyscrapers.