商品簡介
`In Search of the City on a Hill is the most important study of the origins and of the evolution of a national myth For the second time Richard Gamble took it upon himself to reveal and prove the insidious and particularly American historical tendency to employ religion for political purposes --- indeed, to subordinate matters of faith to populist publicity, to enhance the latter by the former. This is a lone cry in the midst of a deafening wilderness, but one enriched with a most serious scholarly amassing of historical evidence.'---JOHN LUKACS, AUTHOR OF FIVE DAYS IN LONDON: MAY 1940 AND A NEW REPUBLIC
`Gamble reveals for the first time how the City on a Hill became a trope of American civil religion. His discovery of the recent provenance of that holy verse is just as astounding for the evidence that doesn't exist as for tLe evidence he unearths. This concise masterpiece blew my mind. It will also blow the circuits of all Americans who have been beguiled (or beguiled others) with an idolatrous interpretation of their nation, their history, themselves.'---WALTER A. MCDOUGALL, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING HISTORIAN, AUTHOR OF THROES OF DEMOCRACY: THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ERA
`A thought-provoking analysis of how the biblical metaphor of "a city on a hill" became a national myth.'---FRANCIS J. BREMER, AUTHOR OF JOHN WINTHROP: AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN FOUNDING FATHER AND BUILDING A NEW JERUSALEM: JOHN DAVENPORT, A PURITAN IN THREE WORLDS
作者簡介
Richard M. Gamble holds the Anna Margaret Ross Alexander Chair in History and Political Science at Hillsdale College, Michigan, USA.
