Cities on a Hill - A Brilliant Exploration of Visionary Communities Remaking the American Dream (Paperback, 1st Touchstone ed)

"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.

General

Imprint:	Simon & Schuster
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 1987
First published:	November 1987
Authors:	Frances Fitzgerald
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	414
Edition:	1st Touchstone ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-671-64561-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-671-64561-7
Barcode:	9780671645618

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