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Cities on a Hill by Frances FitzGerald (1987, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSimon & Schuster

ISBN-100671645617

ISBN-139780671645618

eBay Product ID (ePID)1255972

Product Key Features

Book TitleCities on a Hill

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSocial History, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, General, United States / General

Publication Year1987

GenrePolitical Science, History

AuthorFrances Fitzgerald

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight15.3 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition19

ReviewsSan Francisco Chronicle Book Review An eloquent testament to the crazy vigor of this country, a book that persuades us that it's still the luckiest place to be whatever your stripe...An ambitious work...painstakingly thorough., The Washington Post Absorbing...extremely thought-provoking, and great fun to read...I could hardly turn the pages fast enough., The Washington PostAbsorbing...extremely thought-provoking, and great fun to read...I could hardly turn the pages fast enough., The New York Times Ms. FitzGerald [has] the watchful eye of an anthropologist...writing with lucid sympathy for her subjects...A well-written, well-documented book.

Dewey Decimal307/.0973

Synopsis"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.