As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon

From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, the fascinating story of how an obscure Puritan sermon was remade into a founding document of American identity

For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill, John Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans at New England’s founding in 1630. More than three centuries later, Ronald Reagan remade t