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

'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 that passage into a timeless celebration of American promise.

How were Winthrop's long-forgotten words reinvented as a central statement of American identity and exceptionalism?

In 'As a City on a Hill', leading American intellectual historian Daniel Rodgers tells the surprising story of one of the most celebrated documents in the canon of the American idea.