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JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM
HOW THE ANCIENT CITY IGNITED OUR MODERN WORLD |
| By: |
James Carroll |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£18.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0547195613 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780547195612 |
| Publisher: |
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT PUBLISHING COMPANY |
| Pub. date: |
22 July, 2011 |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Description: |
Shows how, as Christopher Columbus carried his own Jerusalem centric worldview to the West, America too was powerfully shaped by the dream of the City on a Hill - from Governor Winthrop to Abraham Lincoln to Woodrow Wilson to Ronald Reagan. |
| Synopsis: |
In Carroll's provocative reading of the deep past, the Bible's brutality responded to the violence that threatened Jerusalem from the start. Centuries later, the mounting European fixation on a heavenly Jerusalem sparked both anti-Semitism and racist colonial contempt. The holy wars of the Knights Templar burned apocalyptic mayhem into the Western mind. Carroll's brilliant and original leap is to show how, as Christopher Columbus carried his own Jerusalem centric worldview to the West, America too was powerfully shaped by the dream of the City on a Hill - from Governor Winthrop to Abraham Lincoln to Woodrow Wilson to Ronald Reagan. The nuclear brinksmanship of the 1973 Yom Kippur War helps prove his point: religion and violence fuel each other, with Jerusalem the ground zero of the heat. |
| US Grade: |
Ninth Grade and over |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Harcourt Children's Books |
| Returns: |
Returnable |