America's Prophet (37 page)

Waldman, Steven.
Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
. New York: Random House, 2008.

Walzer, Michael.
Exodus and Revolution
. New York: Basic Books, 1985.

Walworth, Walter.
Woodrow Wilson
. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1958.

Weinstein, Simcha.
Up, Up, and Oy Vey!: How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero
. Baltimore: Leviathan Press, 2006.

West, Cornel.
Prophetic Fragments: Illuminations of the Crisis in American Religion and Culture
. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1993.

Wiesel, Elie.
Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends
. New York: Summit Books, 1976.

Wildavsky, Aaron.
Moses as Political Leader
. Jerusalem: Shalem Press, 2005.

Williams, Juan, and Quinton Dixie.
This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience
. New York: Amistad, 2003.

Wills, Garry.
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
. New York: A Touchstone Book, 1992.

Winslow, Edward.
Good Newes from New England: A True Relation of Things Very Remarkable at the Plantation of Plimoth in New England
. Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 1996.

Wisse, Ruth. “The Hebrew Imperative.”
Commentary,
June 1990.

Wolf, William J.
The Almost Chosen People
. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1959.

Wood, Gordon S.
The American Revolution: A History
. New York: Modern Library, 2002.

———.
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969.

———.
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
. New York: Vintage Books, 1991.

Wood, Michael.
America in the Movies: “Santa Maria, It Had Slipped My Mind.”
New York: Columbia University Press, 1975.

Wright, Melanie J.
Moses in America: The Cultural Uses of Biblical Narrative
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim.
Freud’s Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Young, Andrew.
An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America
. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.

———.
A Way Out of No Way
:
The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young
. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1994.

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Note: Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

Aaron, 20, 229

Abernathy, Ralph,
258
, 260, 261, 266, 269, 270, 272

Abiff, Hiram, 87

abolitionists, 48–49, 114, 115, 141, 150–51, 153–57, 169

Abraham, 15, 191, 279

Action Comics,
221, 223

Adamic, Louis, 193

Adams, John, 60, 61, 62, 63 and Book of Common Prayer, 56

and Great Seal, 4, 35, 64, 66, 67, 213, 296

as vice president, 79

Adams, Samuel, 55, 88

African Americans:

activism of, 243, 247, 250–53;
see also
civil rights cultural tradition of, 124–32, 247

Exodus story for, 249–53, 256–59

and Jews, 128, 255–57

and March on Washington, 51, 248, 250–53

Moses figure for, 248, 253, 259

slaves,
see
slavery

Alexander II, Czar, 189

Allen, Ethan, 88

America,
see
United States

American Bible Society, 146, 159

American dream, 162, 225, 296, 297

American Negro, 268

American Revolution, 28, 33, 36

and Deuteronomy, 59–60, 93

and Exodus, 59–60, 62–63, 74, 76, 96, 98, 151

Jewish soldiers in, 197

and language of dissent, 38

postwar disarray, 75–76, 90, 92

and Puritans, 61

sources of, 92, 98

and Washington, 52, 58, 75

Anderson, Marian, 250

Angelou, Maya, 269

Anglican Church, 24, 38

Applegate, Debby, 151

Arbella,
8, 25, 60, 194, 278

Aristotle, 298

Ark of the Covenant, 87, 186

Arnold, Benedict, 79

Articles of Confederation, 75, 93

Augustine, Saint, 79

Auschwitz, 127

Bacall, Lauren, 208

Bacon, Francis, 61

Baker, Jim, 19, 23, 26

Baldwin, James, 251

Banks, Lynne Reid,
Moses in Egypt,
210

Barralet, John James,
The Apotheosis of Washington,
100

Bartholdi, Frédéric, 180–81, 183, 184, 186

Barton, Bernard, 48–49

Barton, Bruce,
The Man Nobody Knows,
212

Baskett, Mark, 57, 80

Baxter, Anne, 216, 230

Beecher, Catharine, 203

Beecher, Harriet,
see
Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Beecher, Henry Ward, 141–42,
142,
159, 168–70, 172–73, 203

Beecher, James, 169

Beecher, Lyman, 141, 144, 146, 148–49, 152–53, 161, 203

Beecher family, 141–44, 148–52, 203

Berlin, Irving, 193

Bible:

American Bible Society, 146, 159

and American exceptionalism, 33

and American Revolution, 59–60, 93, 151

authors of, 178, 270

and Civil War, 143, 158–59, 166

ebbing prominence of, 93–94, 209

emotional influence of, 47, 61

English translations of, 30

and evolution, 177–78

Five Books of Moses, 13, 70, 91, 93, 173, 266, 269–70, 282, 301, 306

Geneva,
23

as God’s word, 153

and Great Awakening, 37–38

individual interpretation of, 144, 157, 183, 202

King James, 42, 80

in Latin, 21

as living book, 234

living by, 62–63

New Testament, 20

oath taking on, 79–80, 282

Old Testament,
see
Hebrew Bible

and Pilgrims, 27, 29, 30–31, 62

and printing processes, 21–22, 146

and rebirth, 37

relevance today, 276–77, 282, 286

and slavery, 122, 153–57

for social change, 212

in vernacular, 22, 47, 51

Big Ben, 85

Bingham, George Caleb,
Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap, 147,
148

black nationalism, 127, 128–29

Blanchard, Jonathan, 155–57

Bogart, Humphrey, 208

Boone, Daniel, 119, 147–48,
147
, 197

Borglum, Gutzon, 203

Born in East L.A.
(film), 277

Boston Tea Party, 90

Boughdadly, Abbas El, 233

Boyer, Harold, 25

Bradford, Sarah, 137

Bradford, William,
11
, 13, 43

Hebrew studies of, 32, 170

as Moses, 9, 32, 33, 62, 134, 151, 266

Of Plymouth Plantation,
12, 19, 32

as Pilgrim leader, 8, 9, 28, 31–32, 61, 151, 167

Branch, Taylor, 265

Brewer, Bessie, 272

Brewster, William, 26–27, 203

Brigham Young
(film), 220–21

Britt, Brian, 210

Brooklyn Bridge, 192, 205

Brooks, Phillips, 244

Brown, Charles Reynolds,
The Social Message of the Modern Pulpit,
213

Brown, John, 136

Brown v. Board of Education,
243, 245

Brueggemann, Walter, 298–99, 301

Brynner, Yul, 211, 230, 235

Bullock, Steven,
Revolutionary Brotherhood,
87

Burrell, Captain Jabez, 133

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 221

Bush, Barbara, 281–82

Bush, George H. W., 80

Bush, George W., 80, 278–82, 283

Bushnell, Horace, 38

Campbell, Alexander, 109, 116

Campbell, Betty, 116

Canaan, land of, 17, 61, 151, 152

Canada, and Underground Railroad, 138

Captain America,
224–25

Carter, Jimmy, 80, 295

Carver, George Washington, 248

Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, New York City, 241, 242, 243, 245, 251

Catholic Emancipation Act (Britain, 1829), 46

Charles II, king of England, 54

Chicago Conference on Religion and Race (1963), 257

Christ Church, Philadelphia, 53–59, 55, 71

Churchill, Winston, 239

Church of England, 24, 38

Church of God in Christ, 259

Cicero, 92

Cincinnati, Ohio, 140–41, 152, 153, 155–57

civil rights, 255, 272

and Exodus, 256–57

and Jews, 256, 257, 295

and King,
see
King, Martin Luther, Jr.

March on Washington, 51, 248, 250–53

and Mason Temple, Memphis, 260

and Moses, 247, 254, 257

Civil Rights Act (1964), 256

Civil War, U.S., 33, 142–43, 293

battle of Gettysburg, 157, 158

and Bible, 143, 158–59, 166

debates about, 153–57, 160

and Lincoln, 159–61, 164, 165, 168

and slavery, 142, 153–57, 162

surrender at Appomattox, 169

Clark’s Island, 7, 9, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 30

Clay, Joseph, 110

Clinton, Bill, 278

Clinton, Hillary, 5

Coca-Cola, 293

Cohen, Helen, 210–11, 215, 219

Cold War, 51, 227, 228, 295

Colossus of Rhodes, 181

Columbia University, 95

Columbus, Christopher, 4, 21, 61, 151, 241, 296

Communist Party, 212–13, 234–35

Confucius, 283

Conrad, Robert, 49

Constantine, emperor of Rome, 183

Constitution, U.S., 28, 49, 75, 95, 129, 187, 251

and church-state separation, 145, 167

First Amendment to, 94, 145, 197, 284–85

ratification of, 94, 98

Constitutional Convention, 75, 76, 93

Continental Congress, 35,
55,
55, 63, 75

Cooper, Rev. Samuel, 92

Corley, D. B., 152

Cotton, John, 28, 60

Craig, Rev. Mark, 281

Daley, Richard, 249

Darfur, genocide in, 295

Dartmouth University, 95

Darwin, Charles, 298

The Origin of Species,
177–78

Darwinism, 209

Deaver, Mike, 280

Declaration of Independence, 35, 36

anniversaries of, 48, 180

and Duché, 56, 58

and equal rights, 155, 251

and Gettysburg Address, 164, 165

and Liberty Bell, 45, 49, 50, 53

signers of, 40, 67, 90

and Statue of Liberty, 187, 194

Deists, 47, 60

DeMille, Cecil B., 4, 209

birth and early years of, 211, 212

casting books of, 215–16

and Churchill, 239

and interfaith relations, 236, 237–38

memorabilia in storage, 215–16

and Moses, 239–40, 296

screen appearance of, 227–28

scripts of, 216–17, 238

and social message, 214–15, 227, 229, 238

and
Ten Commandments,
209, 212, 214–19, 218, 226–31, 234–40

DeMille, Henry, 211, 214, 237

DeMille, Matilda Samuel, 211

Depew, Chauncey, 193

Derek, John, 216

Deuteronomy:

and American Revolution, 59–60, 93

Moses story in, 93, 173, 206, 308

and Passover, 139

and Ten Commandments, 28

Diethorn, Karie, 36, 39, 43, 44, 46–47, 52–53

Douglas, Stephen, 156, 160

Douglass, Frederick, 124, 136, 162–63, 248

Du Bois, W. E. B., 299

Duché, Jacob, 54–59, 55, 62, 80

Duffield, Rev. George, 61

Dylan, Bob, 250

Edison, Thomas A., 167

Edwards, Jonathan, 38, 167, 203

Einstein, Albert, 96, 298

Eisendrath, Maurice, 258

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 80, 236, 237, 279, 295

Eizenstat, Stuart, 295

Elijah, 292

Eliot, George, “The Death of Moses,” 308

Eliza (slave girl), 116,
117
, 118–19, 150–51

Ellis, Joseph, 79

Emancipation Proclamation, 161, 162, 169, 251

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 189

Enlightenment, 166, 285

as about transformation, 144, 161–62

European thinkers, 61, 92

and Founders, 47, 87, 92, 93, 167

E Pluribus Unum,
66

Everett, Edward, 163

Exodus:

and African American identity, 249–53, 256–59

and American identity, 95, 98, 195, 196, 296, 298

and American Revolution, 59–60, 62–63, 74, 76, 96, 98, 151

biblical story of, 5–6, 8, 24, 27, 30, 65, 70, 93, 94, 130, 131, 184, 253, 293, 300–301

and Civil War, 158–59, 164

commemoration of, 139

and freedom, 71, 129–32, 249, 300

and immigration to U.S., 184, 188–92, 193–94

and Underground Railroad, 124, 128, 134, 136, 151–52

and U.S. western expansion, 148

Exodus, Book of, 13, 233, 300

King’s sermons on, 243, 246

language of, 37–38, 67, 146

Farrakhan, Louis, 255

Feiler, Bruce:

Abraham,
278–79

meeting with Bush, 279–81

Filson, John, 146–48

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 208

Forefathers Day, 19

Fosdick, Rev. Harry Emerson, 245

Fox, Richard W.,
Jesus in America,
297

Frank, Anne, 291

Franklin, Aretha, 248

Franklin, Benjamin, 42–43, 49, 63, 141, 151, 167, 279

as abolitionist, 111

books published by, 39, 88

and the Constitution, 95

and faith, 47, 62

and Great Seal, 4, 36, 64–68, 202, 213, 296

Franklin, C. L., 248, 253, 259

Franklin, Robert, 249–50, 252–53

Fraternal Order of Eagles, 235

Fraunces Tavern, New York, 86

Freedom Riders, 256

“Free at last!,” 247–48, 252

Freemasons,
see
Masons

Freud, Sigmund, 298

Moses and Monotheism,
210, 288

Frieden, Betty, 277

Friends of Freedom, 48

Fugitive Slave Law, 137, 150

fundamentalism, 209

Furr, Barbara, 143, 149, 152

Gable, Clark, 208

Gabler, Neal,
An Empire of Their Own,
223, 225

Gandhi, Mohandas K. (Mahatma), 254

Garbo, Greta, 208

Gardner, Tom, 204–5

Garrison, William Lloyd, 114

Gates, Bill, 277

gay rights, 51

Geffen, Rabbi David, 293

Genesis, book of, 27, 83–85, 269

Geneva Bible,
23

George III, king of England, 31, 60, 61

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 157–58

Gettysburg Address (Lincoln), 158, 161, 163–65, 166, 241, 296

Glaude, Eddie, 129, 301

“Go Down, Moses,” 125, 251, 295

Goebbels, Joseph, 225

Goldberg, Arthur, 295

Goldberg, Dorothy, 295