num_pages: 416
description: 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.
language: English
title: Cities on a Hill
titlecomplete: Cities on a Hill
genres: Sociology, History, Anthropology, Religion, American History, LGBT, The United States Of America, Social Science, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 128
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: American Studies
publisher: Simon & Schuster