The Making and Unmaking of an American Myth
by
Dr Richard M. Gamble
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
In Search of the City on a Hill challenges the widespread assumption that Americans have always used this potent metaphor to define their national identity. It demonstrates that America's 'redeemer myth' owes more to nineteenth- and twentieth-century reinventions of the Puritans than to the colonists'...