America’s Prophet: Moses and the Spirit of a Nation
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Exodus story is the story of America. Moses is our real father. In this revolutionary book, traveling the New York Times bestselling author Bruce Feiler through milestones in American history and traces affect the Biblical prophet from the Mayflower to the present. Feiler visits the island where the Pilgrims spent their first Sabbath, climb the belfry, where the Liberty Bell was joined by a quotation from Moses, telling the underground railroad. . . more>>
America’s Prophet: Moses and the Spirit of a Nation
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March 3rd, 2010 at 1:46 pm
I absolutely love the books by Bruce Feiler’s. I read most of them so far, and I find it incredibly exciting and interesting. His books “Walking the Bible where God was born, and Abraham are fantastic works of literature, where Bruce Feiler must be made to the Middle East and visits from the local Bible and try to make a spiritual connection with them. Although there are no Christians or Jews, have always been very interested in the Bible, and his books really caught my imagination.
Prophet America is a very interesting book, the figure of Moses U.S. history. When I got this book, I was a bit “confused, because I do not believe that Moses was more of a place in American history. I can not believe how I was wrong – again and again, Moses is contacted a picture of inspiration, someone to lead us through difficult times of a promised land. Americans look at the story of Moses, even now. It is incredible to read.
My favorite part of America’s Prophet was when Feiler retrace part of the underground railroad. He went out in the middle of the night and literally ran through the streets and buildings, trying to get a feel for what it was. Of course, he followed only a very short distance of the railway, but I was so impressed by his need to become a part of history. I have admired and been a fan of Bruce Feiler for a very long time, but this really showed me what he is immersed in the stories down.
If you are interested in the Bible, although only in a sense, a layman like me, you have to collect the books by Bruce Feiler’s. If he is a jew, his words of faith and spirituality in all religious boundaries. His travels to find and connect with the real places in the Bible is wonderful to read about, and his discussion of the history is just fascinating. Although not usually as non-fiction, you should search for books by Bruce Feiler’s. It’s really not a writer-it-lose, and America’s prophet is no exception. I liked very much and already I can not wait for his next book to be published!
Rating: 4 / 5
March 3rd, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Mr. Feiler develop a good essay in this book, that Moses was a leading figure in American history, far more than even Jesus to get there, you start by pilgrims and running today.
< , br /> In addition to the theory, Mr. Feiler throws in some very interesting and rarely saw the story. For example, the story of the Pilgrim’s Church service first, Clark Island, before he founded the Plymouth and the “true” story of the Liberty Bell. Other events were captured and the subway, the assassination of ML King and the Statue of Liberty – separately, of course, referring to the story of Moses. These insights were the history books and lessons history reader, in addition to serving as examples to prove his theory.
buttresses his theory with excellent examples of speeches and sermons, Moses used as a symbol of the Americas, as well as special groups of Americans. It captures how Moses in Exodus and the “choice” people in the Old Testament was the common themes in the history of the United States and how Americans – black and white – to see. He also shows how these principles apply to all, as a pilgrim, in Lincoln and the slaves of the twentieth century immigrants.
My only criticism is that it is often redundant, resulting in four or five examples where one or two can make. He would often repeat his points and summarized his chain of logic. It looked like a dissertation on “paper” has stretched the length of the book.
This is despite the criticism, is a new and interesting look at American history, with a few goodies that are rarely seen history thrown into the mix, broker interest.
Rating: 3 / 5
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:39 pm
What makes the Puritans, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Statue of Liberty, Cecil B. DeMille, and Martin Luther King Jr. have in common?
Moses.
Prophet in America, reveals Bruce Feiler mosaic thread that opens through the fabric of American history. Along the way we see a jew history become American history by becoming the universal story of hope. The book is quite fascinating, and I recommend it highly.
The American appropriation of Moses begins with the Puritans. Since the King James as Pharaoh himself as the Children of Israel, and the new world, as the promised land. But the departure of Mayflower was their exodus, the signing of the pact Mayflower was their Sinai. Moses was not just a deliverer, he was a legislator. Mosaic Twin themes of freedom and responsibility are repeated in American history. George Washington, for example, is guided his people from British tyranny and constitutional responsibilities. Martin Luther King Jr., has brought an African-American segregation and Jim Crow in the community “loved”.
Narrative Moses spoke forcefully to the American people, because it historically was a nominal Christian and biblical literacy. The civil war was in any way, a theological dispute. Moses would side with the abolitionists and the slaves take a flight to freedom? Or would side with the slave, because the law of Sinai spot slavery? Discussions could not solve the problem, but only war could. And at the end of the Abraham Lincoln spoke as another Moses.
It was Martin Luther King Jr., who paved the way for full integration of African Americans in American society, the Civil War just opened. And as Moses, who went only as far as Nebo and never reached the promised land, the king himself would never have the remarkable progress in his dream after his death in Memphis, Tennessee. But the day before his death, talked to Mason Temple, however, said: “I’ve seen the promised land. And they can not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the Promised country.
America was not only a promised land for African Americans. E “was also a promised land for immigrants, many of them Jews fleeing Eastern European pogroms, which sailed to the port of New York during unattended, Lady Liberty. Points Feiler substantial influence on the Mosaic also the architectural icon, but also through the words of the poem by Emma Lazarus’ “New Colossus”.
In addition to the influence narrative mosaic policies, Feiler believes that its influence in popular culture. Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments, actor Charlton Heston, was a battle of the Cold War, the U.S. requested to obey God, rather than communist tyranny. Paramount Studios also funded the placement of granite 10 Commandments monuments on courthouse lawns across America . One of them, in Austin, Texas, became the center of a case in the Supreme Court. Two Jewish boys, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, containing substances in the mosaic of their most famous superhero: Superman. And even before the 20th century, Bruce Barton turned both Jesus and Moses in a model of entrepreneur and manager, respectively. Casual published by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of Moses, Persuader by men, which Moses is described as “one of the largest real estate salesman and work that has ever lived.”
Why does Moses take on the jump from American history (the sublime and ridiculous)? In its conclusion, Feiler points to three factors. As already mentioned, the story of Moses is one of freedom and responsibility, freedom and freedom. It is also a story of integration. Feiler, he writes, “Israel experience of oppression becomes the basis for a series of Mosaic law to mandate that God’s people care for the poor, tending the sick, suffering for your convenience and accept the bad in his arms. “
America is constantly shaken by the place of religion in public culture. Feiler book shows how the use of the biblical story of Moses was in fact used for good and evil in American history (or both , in the case of civil war) – but especially for me. As our culture becomes more diverse, one wonders if the story of Moses can still do something good.
Rating: 5 / 5
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:02 pm
Again, Bruce Feiler has done an outstanding job of taking us on a journey through a theme to which most writers would never think to carry on. Who would have thought of Moses as a prophet of America’s? Yet Feiler takes us from the start with the pilgrims to this day. When it stops his account there is no doubt in your mind, so that Moses as he was influential in the founding of our country, the moral thinking and positive way.
Many people find it difficult to accept the Jewish nation, the Christian roots, but I think this book will be marked to grant whatever your religious beliefs.
The author takes a series of milestones in our history and through some very good research is showing how the bonds of each event in the life, teachings, and dreams of Moses. I think it helps to have some knowledge of the Bible to answer Feiler more understandable. But even without that the reader can still see a tie for each character and event. Undoubtedly influenced the story of Moses and his quest for liberation and freedom, the Pilgrims, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and almost all of our presidents. Feiler expands on these few events and characters and how they relied on the doctrine and the leadership of Moses, as he led his people to freedom, justice and morality. This is an excellent account of history, most of us never touch. I agree. . . Moses could be called the prophet of America.
Rating: 5 / 5
March 3rd, 2010 at 8:29 pm
AMERICA Prophet: Moses and the American short story exploring the foundations of the symbolic constitution of the United States and regularly which helped to shape and influence American society in the parameters of the Bible. For those who have read or studied history, author Bruce Feiler feelings reflect on today’s impression of the current economic and social disruption, possibly, another phase of a major revival with a touch of the observation that repeat views of the nineteenth century, on through the lens twenty-first century, an idea that Mark Twain said, and observed with the promised land in mind.
The most interesting part of Feiler’s book is a survey of American literature’s history is covered more than 400 years, and material culture which has been interpreted in ways large and monumental. In fact, most of the book focuses on fathers and religious complex relationship to Moses that draws connections and the importance of religion and history. Feiler explanations and detailed discussion about the symbolic meaning behind all the historical monuments meters imagination, especially with the legendary illustrations which accompany the book, then, without doubt, readers will see beyond the photograph or painting and can be more familiar with Emma Lazarus, Daniel Boone, Cecil B . DeMille, and many others.
Combined, Feiler story live beyond major proportions. His engaging and lively story gives the reader a better understanding of names, places, ideas and material culture that has evolved over American history. In fact, this is not a textbook rendering, but examine and dig deep into the story of American history.
Rating: 5 / 5