America's Prophet (36 page)

Kimball, David.
The Story of the Liberty Bell.
Fort Washington, PA: Eastern National, 1989.

Kirsch, Jonathan.
Moses: A Life
. New York: Ballantine Books, 1998.

Kolb, Robert.
Martin Luther as Prophet, Teacher, and Hero: Images of the Reformer, 1520–1620
. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1999.

Kushner, Harold S.
Overcoming Life’s Disappointments
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

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When Bad Things Happen to Good People
. New York: Anchor, 2004.

Lambert, Frank.
Inventing the “Great Awakening.”
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.

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“Pedlar in Divinity”: George Whitefield and the Transatlantic Revivals, 1737–1770
. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Larson, Kate Clifford.
Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero
. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.

Levenson, Jon D.
The Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, and Historical Criticism
. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993.

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Sinai & Zion: An Entry into the Jewish Bible
. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1985.

Liebman, Joshua Loth.
Peace of Mind
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1946.

Lutz, Donald. “The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late Eighteenth-Century American Political Thought.”
American Political Science Review
78 (1984).

Lyon, Peter.
Success Story: The Life and Times of S. S. McClure
. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1963.

MacCulloch, Diarmaid.
The Reformation: A History
. New York: Penguin Books, 2003.

Maier, Pauline.
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
. New York: Vintage Books, 1997.

Marks, Gary L.
Pilgrims Then and Now
. Philadelphia: The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1990.

Marom, Daniel. “Who Is the ‘Mother of Exiles’?: Jewish Aspects of Emma Lazarus’s

‘The New Colossus.’”
Prooftexts
20 (2000).

Marsden, George M.
Fundamentalism and American Culture
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Marty, Martin E.
Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America
. New York: Penguin Books, 1958.

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Politics, Religion, and the Common Good: Advancing a Distinctly American Conversation About Religion’s Role in Our Shared Life
. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2000.

———. “Religion and the Constitution.”
The Christian Century,
March 23–30, 1994.

Matthiessen, F. O.
American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
. London: Oxford University Press, 1941.

McAlister, Melani.
Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East Since 1945
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

McCullough, David.
John Adams
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

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1776
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

McPherson, James M.
Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg
. New York: Crown Publishers, 2003.

Meachem, Jon.
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
. New York: Random House, 2006.

Mead, Sidney E.
The Lively Experiment: The Shaping of Christianity in America
. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.

Meier, Levi.
Moses—The Prince, the Prophet: His Life, Legend & Message for Our Lives
. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1998.

Menand, Louis.
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

Meyer, Isidore S.
The Hebrew Exercises of Governor William Bradford
. Plymouth, MA: Pilgrim Society, 1973.

Miers, Charlene.
Independence Hall in American Memory.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

Miller, Keith D.
Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Its Sources
. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1992.

Miller, Nathan.
New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America
. New York: DaCapo Press, 2003.

Miller, Perry.
The American Puritan: Their Prose and Poetry
. New York: Columbia University Press, 1956.

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Errand into the Wilderness
. New York: Harper & Row, 1956.

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The Life of the Mind in America, from the Revolution to the Civil War
. New York: Harcourt, Brace: World, 1965.

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The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939.

Miller, Randall M., Harry S. Stout, and Charles Reagan Wilson, eds.
Religion and the American Civil War
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Miller, Robert Moats.
Harry Emerson Fosdick: Preacher, Pastor, Prophet
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Mitchell, Joshua.
Not by Reason Alone: Religion, History, and Identity in Early Modern Political Thought
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Moreno, Barry.
The Statue of Liberty Encyclopedia
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

Morgan, Edmund S.
American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1975.

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The Birth of the Republic: 1763–89
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956.

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The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson
. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1976.

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The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop
. New York: Pearson, 2006.

Mulder, John M.
Woodrow Wilson: The Years of Preparation
. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.

Myers, Marvin, ed.
The Mind of the Founder: Sources of the Political Thought of James Madison
. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 1973.

Nadel, Alan. “God’s Law and the Wide Screen:
The Ten Commandments
as Cold War ‘Epic.’”
PMLA
108, no. 3 (1993).

Naudon, Paul.
The Secret History of Freemasonry: Its Origins and Connection to the Knights Templar
. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1991.

Needleman, Jacob.
The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders
. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2002.

Noerdlinger, Henry S.
Moses and Egypt: The Documentation to the Motion Picture “The Ten Commandments.”
Los Angeles: University of Southern California Press, 1956.

Noll, Mark A.
America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

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The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

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A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada.
Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1992.

Novak, Michael, and Jana Novak.
Washington’s God: Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country
. New York: Basic Books, 2006.

Oren, Michael B.
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: American in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present
. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007.

Orrison, Katherine.
Lionheart in Hollywood: The Autobiography of Henry Wilcoxin
. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1991.

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Written in Stone: Making Cecil B. DeMille’s Epic “The Ten Commandments.”
Lanham, MD: Vestal Press, 1999.

Pardes, Ilana.
The Biography of Ancient Israel: National Narratives in the Bible
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

———. “Moses Goes Down to Hollywood: Miracles and Special Effects.”
Semeia
74 (1996).

Parker, John P.
His Promised Land
. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996.

Pauli, Hertha, and E. B. Ashton.
I Lift My Lamp: The Way of a Symbol
. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1948.

Philbrick, Nathaniel.
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
. New York: Viking, 2006.

Pixley, George V.
On Exodus: A Liberation Perspective
. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1983.

Plaut, W. Gunther, ed.
The Torah: A Modern Commentary
. New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1981.

Polzin, Robert.
Moses and the Deuteronomist: A Literary Study of the Deuteronomic History, Part One
. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.

Ponder, Catherine.
The Millionaire Moses: His Prosperity Secrets for You!
Camarillo, CA: DeVorss Publications, 1977.

Pory, John, Emmanuel Altham, and Isaack De Rasieres.
Three Visitors to Early Plymouth
. Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 1997.

Prothero, Stephen.
American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon
. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

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Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know—And Doesn’t
. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2007.

Raboteau, Albert J.
Slave Religion: The “Invisible Institution” in the Antebellum South
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Rakove, Jack N.
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
. New York: Vintage Books, 1996.

Rankin, John.
Letters on American Slavery
. Newburyport: Charles Whipple, 1836.

Rappoport, Angelo S.
Ancient Israel.
Volume One. London: Gresham Publishing Company, 1995.

Reynolds, David S.
Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography
. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.

Riley, Edward M.
Starting America: The Story of Independence Hall
. Gettysburg, PA: Eastern National Park & Monument Association, 1954.

Ritchie, Andrew.
The Soldier, the Battle, and the Victory: Being a Brief Account of the Work of Rev. John Rankin
. Cincinnati: Western Tract and Book Society, 1868.

Roshwald, Mordecai, and Miriam Roshwald.
Moses: Leader, Prophet, Man
. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1969.

Rubin, Saul Jacob.
Third to None: The Saga of Savannah Jewry, 1733–1983.
Savannah: Congregation Mickve Israel, 1983.

Sacks, Jonathan.
The Chief Rabbi’s Haggadah
. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

Sandmel, Samuel.
Alone Atop the Mountain: A Novel About Moses and the Exodus
. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1973.

Sarna, Jonathan D.
American Judaism: A History
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

———. “The Cult of Synthesis in American Jewish Culture.”
Jewish Social Studies
5, nos. 1–2 (Fall 1989/Winter 1999).

Sarna, Jonathan D., and David G. Dalin.
Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience.
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997.

Schlessinger, Laura, and Stewart Vogel.
The Ten Commandments: The Significance of God’s Laws in Everyday Life
. New York: HarperPerennial, 1998.

Schor, Esther.
Emma Lazarus
. New York: Nextbook, 2006.

Silver, Daniel Jeremy.
Images of Moses
. New York: Basic Books, 1982.

Slezkine, Yuri.
The Jewish Century.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.

Slotkin, Richard.
Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860
. New York: HarperPerennial, 1973.

Sniderman, Paul M.
A Question of Loyalty
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.

Sollors, Werner.
Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Southgate, Joan E., and Fran Stewart.
In Their Path: A Grandmother’s 519-Mile Underground Railroad Walk
. Solon, OH: Eagle Creek Press, 2004.

Steffens, Lincoln.
The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens.
Volume II:
Muckraking/Revolution/Seeing America at Last
. San Diego: A Harvest/HBJ Book, 1931.

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Moses in Red
. Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company Publishers, 1926.

Stephanson, Anders.
Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right
. New York: Hill and Wang, 1995.

Stout, Harry S.
The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism
. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1991.

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Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War
. New York: Viking, 2006.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
. Carlisle, MA: Applewood Books, 1998.

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly
. New York: Penguin Books, 1981.

Tanakh: A New Translation of the Holy Scriptures
. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1985.

Tobin, Jacqueline L., and Raymond G. Dobard.
Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad.
New York: Anchor Books, 1999.

Tooze, G. Andrew. “Moses and the Reel Exodus.”
Journal of Religion and Film
7, no. 1 (April 2003).

Trachtenberg, Marvin.
The Statue of Liberty.
New York: Penguin Books, 1986.

Tuchman, Barbara W.
Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour
. New York: Ballantine Books, 1956.