Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures
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- Synopsis
- "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.
- Copyright:
- 1981
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 408 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780671552091
- Publisher:
- Simon & Schuster
- Date of Addition:
- 06/06/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Frances FitzGerald
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Sociology
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.