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By Matthew Watson
This AMAZING one-star review is my personal protest against authors (publishers?) who use descriptive adjectives about the quality of the book IN THE BOOK'S TITLE! It reminds me of people who post personal ads where they describe themselves as "very good-looking." I'm pretty sure we can all be the judge of who is good-looking to each of us, and which books we find BRILLIANT. Evidently this book was not all that brilliant to begin with--two reviews in the last 10 years, and countless used copies at $0.01.
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"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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1059492 in Books
- Published on: 1987-11-15
- Released on: 1987-11-15
- Original language:English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.39" h x5.39" w x1.06" l,1.15 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 416 pages
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