“Was America Born Capitalist?”: On John Winthrop’s “A Model of Christian Charity”
LARB presents an excerpt from “As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon” by Daniel T. Rodgers.
Daniel T. Rodgers is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. His books include Age of Fracture, winner of the Bancroft Prize; Atlantic Crossings; Contested Truths; The Work Ethic in Industrial America; and As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
LARB presents an excerpt from “As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon” by Daniel T. Rodgers.