America's Prophet (38 page)

Goldwyn, Sam, 212

Gollar, Walter, 153

Gomes, Rev. Peter, 29–34, 134, 195

Gore, Jerry, 120–23, 126–27, 139

Graham, Billy, 234

Graham’s Magazine,
50

Graves, Robert, 210

Great Awakening, 4, 37–38, 56, 144–45, 146, 165, 203

Guelzo, Allen, 161, 162, 166, 171, 174

Hancock, John, 88

Harding, Warren G., 80

Harlem Renaissance, 246

Harlow, Jean, 208

Harvard University, 95

Hay, Robert, 102

Hayne, Donald, 229

Hebrew Bible:

and America’s moral foundations, 51

freedom in, 70

laws in, 28

Moses in, 22

as source of knowledge, 88

see also
Bible

Heine, Heinrich, 71

Helios (sun god), 183

Hemings, Sally, 111

Hepburn, Audrey, 216

Herberg, Will,
Protestant-Catholic-Jew,
236

Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 256–59,
258,
291

Heschel, Susannah, 256–58, 259

Heston, Charlton, 197, 235

in DeMille’s casting book, 216

at March on Washington, 251

in
Ten Commandments,
6,
218,
219, 229, 230, 239

Hitchcock, Alfred, 193

Hitler, Adolf, 224–25,
224
, 255, 295

Hobbes, Thomas, 92, 93, 298

Hoderath, Geoffrey, 73, 75, 76, 80, 82–83

Hollywood:

blacklist in, 227

early film industry in, 212

European Jewish immigrants in, 223

revivals in, 227

special effects in, 230, 231

Sunset Boulevard, 208–9

Holocaust, 227

Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 125

Hughes, Howard, 208

Hughes, Langston, 299

Hume, David, 92

Hurston, Zora Neale, 210, 246–48, 252

Moses, Man of the Mountain,
247

Huxley, Thomas, 22

Hyneman, Charles, 92, 93

Independence Hall, Philadelphia, 36, 63

bell for,
see
Liberty Bell

bell tower of, 43–44, 45, 48

Centennial Bell in, 52

construction of, 39–40

as State House, 40, 44, 45

visitors to, 70

Ingraham, J. H.,
The Pillar of Fire,
210

Islam, 20

Israel:

creation of, 20

identity of, 191

Jackson, Andrew, 80

Jackson, Jacob, 136

Jackson, Jesse, 272

Jackson, Mahalia, 251

James I, king of England, 8

Jamestown colony, 8, 110

Jefferson, Thomas:

and Declaration of Independence, 63

and Great Seal, 4, 36, 64, 66–68, 202, 213, 296

influence of, 89

and religion, 145

and slavery, 110–11

Jerusalem, Solomon’s Temple in, 86, 87, 89

Jesus of Nazareth, 274, 296–97

and Lincoln, 171, 174

as new Moses, 20

in popular culture, 212, 250

Jet,
269

Jewkes, Delow, 229

Jews:

and African Americans, 128, 255–57

in America, 195–203

in American Revolution, 197

and anti-Semitism, 197–98, 202, 258

and civil rights movement, 256, 257, 295

comic books created by, 223, 224

early settlements of, 196–97

hagadahs
of, 291–93,
294
, 95, 304

in Hollywood, 223

Holocaust, 227

immigrants to U.S., 189, 191, 193, 194, 196,
198
, 201, 223

importance of Moses to, 196, 199–202

and melting pot, 201

and Passover, 2, 41, 98, 139, 200–201, 231–33, 275, 292–93, 295–96, 303–4

seders, 291–93, 295, 302–5

Soviet, 295 and Torah, 13, 98, 196, 203–4

and Yom Kippur, 203–4

Jobs, Steve, 277

Joel, Joseph, 293

Johnson, Lyndon B., 4, 277, 282

Jones, Rev. Absalom, 128

Jones, Christopher, 11

Josephus, 299

Judeo-Christian tradition, 237

Kemp, John, 26–27, 28

Kennedy, John F., 264, 277

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 243–48

assassination of, 254, 259, 267, 272–73

and civil rights movement, 255, 258, 268, 291

and Exodus, 256–57

and Heschel, 256–59

legacy of, 269, 270, 274

“Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” 251

and Liberty Bell, 51, 251–52

and March on Washington, 51, 248, 252

in Memphis, 260–66, 278

as Moses, 4, 25, 33, 58, 245, 246, 248, 253, 259, 262, 268–69, 274, 291, 296

preaching,
242
, 243, 261–66, 267, 271

woman’s attack on, 263–64

King, Rev. Martin Luther, Sr., 246

Koran, Moses mentioned in, 20

Kraft, Bob, 287

Kushner, Harold, 289, 290

Overcoming Life’s Disappointments,
288

When Bad Things Happen to Good People,
287–88

Kyles, Rev. Samuel “Billy,” 261, 271–74

Laboulaye, Édouard de, 180

Lafayette, Marquis de, 46, 48

Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, 141, 153

Langdon, Samuel, 60, 94

Lasky, Jesse, 212

Lazarus, Emma, 188–92, 199

and Moses, 191–92

“The New Colossus,” 189–91, 192, 193–94, 199

Lazarus, Moses, 188

League of Nations, 220

Lee, Henry, 101

Lee, Robert E., 169

“Let my people go,” 15, 61, 107, 125–26, 136, 192, 255

Leviticus, Book of, 40–43

Holiness Code in, 41

Liberty Bell quotation (Verse 25), 4, 40, 41–43, 44, 47, 51, 71–72, 165, 296

name of, 41

and slavery, 156

and
Ten Commandments
film,
238
, 239

on Yom Kippur, 203

Lewis, John, 269

Lewis and Clark, 119

Liberator,
114, 137

Liberty Bell, Philadelphia, 36–53, 63, 239

author’s visit to, 43–44, 48, 52–53

cracks in, 44, 46

E-flat tone of, 44, 46

and Friends of Freedom, 48

in King’s speech, 51, 251–52

Leviticus 25

quotation on face of, 4, 40, 41–43, 44, 47, 51, 71–72, 165, 296

military swearing-in at site of, 52–53

poetry inspired by, 48–49, 51

procurement of, 40, 44, 85

recasting of, 44–45

replicas of, 70

ringing of, 45, 46,
50

and Sister Bell, 45, 46

stop-drilling repairs to, 46

as symbol of America, 51–52, 195

as symbol of hope, 53, 72

as symbol of independence, 36, 47, 48–49, 71

tourist visits to, 70

traveling exhibition of, 49,
50
, 51

“Liberty Bell, The” (Sousa), 51

Liberty Enlightening the World
(Bartholdi),
see
Statue of Liberty

Liberty Island, New York Harbor, 177

Liebman, Joshua,
Peace of Mind,
288–89

Lincoln, Abraham, 141, 157–75, 194, 203, 241, 274

assassination of, 170, 180

and Civil War, 159–61, 164, 165, 168

and Douglas debates, 156, 160

and Emancipation Proclamation, 161, 162, 169, 251

funeral orations to memory of, 170–74, 266–67

and Gettysburg, 157

and Gettysburg Address, 158, 161, 163–65, 166

as Jesus, 171, 174

as Moses, 4, 33, 58, 143, 162, 165, 167, 171–75, 248, 267, 282, 296

and religion, 160–61, 163, 164–65, 166, 167

second inaugural address of, 161, 165–68

and Thanksgiving, 7, 19

Lincoln, Willie, 163

Livingston, Robert, 80, 85

Locke, John, 61, 92, 93, 298

Long, Charles, 250

Look, 224

Lossing, Benson,
Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution,
49

Lowell, James Russell, 19

Luther, Martin, 21–22, 267

Lutz, Donald, 92, 93

MacArthur, John, 67–69

Madison, James, 94

Magruder, “Uncle Tom,” 150

Mandela, Nelson, 71–72

manifest destiny, 148

Mann, Thomas, 210, 220

March on Washington, 51, 248, 250–53

Marin, Richard “Cheech,” 277

Marshall, John, 46

Martí, José, 193

Marty, Martin, 94

Marx, Karl, 298

Mason, Charles, 259

Mason-Dixon line, 119

Masonic Bible:

other uses for, 80–81

passages where Washington rested his hand, 78, 83–85

and September 11 attack, 81–82

and Washington’s inauguration, 74, 78–80,
78

Masons:

author’s visit to, 85–90

Bartholdi as member of, 180, 183

code of (
The Book of Constitutions
), 88

history of, 87

morality plays of, 88

and Moses, 89

password of, 87

PR rep of, 86–90

reenactment of Washington’s inauguration, 73–80, 82–83

and religion, 87

in Saint Paul’s Chapel, 73–74, 82–83

speculative Freemasonry, 87

spread of, 88

and Statue of Liberty, 183

values of, 90

Washington as member of, 76, 86, 90

Massachusetts:

legal code of, 28

slavery forbidden in, 111

Mather, Cotton, 9, 37

Matthew, Gospel according to, 20

Mayflower
, 8, 10–11, 12, 27, 299

Mayflower Compact,
11
, 28, 203, 299

Mayflower II
, 3, 24

Mayhew, Rev. Jonathan, 61

McCain, John, 6

McCarthyism, 227

Melville, Herman, 220

Memphis, Tennessee:

civil rights movement in, 262, 264

King in, 260–66, 278

King’s last speech in, 261–66

Lorraine Motel in, 260–61, 269–74

Mason Temple in, 259–60, 266

Merced, Daniel, 81–82

Metropolitan Art Storage, 210–11, 215

Metropolitan Casualty Life Insurance Company,
Moses, Persuader of Men
, 212

Michelangelo Buonarotti, 184, 185

Milk, Harvey, 277

Miller, Keith,
Voice of Deliverance
, 245

Milton, John, 23

Mississippi Summer, 256

Miss Liberty
(Broadway musical), 193

Montesquieu, Baron de La Brède et de, 92, 93, 298

Moreno, Barry, 179–81, 183, 186, 187, 188, 194, 196

Mormonism, 220

Morton, Jacob, 80, 83

Moses:

as action hero, 68, 221–26

adapting the image to the times, 220, 221, 246–48, 296

and American identity, 196,
198,
199, 202, 287, 296–97

American legacy of, 297–309

and blood of the lamb, 16

and burning bush, 14–15, 27, 38, 184, 191, 226, 229, 236, 239

and the courage to escape, 298–99

and covenant, 27, 97, 98, 186, 300

elevation of, 21, 23

farewell speech to the Israelites, 8–9, 12, 25–26, 93, 204, 206, 262–63, 278, 290, 308

Five Books of (Pentateuch), 13, 70, 91, 93, 173, 266, 269–70, 282, 301, 306

freedom and law, 27, 97, 186–87, 299–300

and the golden calf, 17

grave of, 152

and leadership, 15, 91, 94, 152, 253, 268, 277–78, 282–83, 287, 289, 296

Michelangelo’s statue of, 184, 185

and Mormonism, 220

at Mount Sinai, 16–17, 27, 60, 96, 97, 185–86, 196, 267, 300

murder committed by, 14

and personal fulfillment, 287–91

and pharaoh, 15–16

and Pilgrims, 12, 22, 29–33, 151, 296, 299

in popular culture, 210, 212–14, 225, 288, 289, 296

and the Promised Land, 17–18, 31, 33, 266, 268

as prophet, 20–21, 29, 191, 225

radical ideals attributed to, 22, 157

Red Sea divided by, 16, 98, 267

relevance today, 275–77, 283–87, 289–91, 302, 306–9

and revolution, 96

story of, 13–18, 20, 27, 91, 107, 184, 187, 205–7, 221, 234, 282, 297, 306–7

and Ten Commandments, 17, 22, 27, 87, 96, 155, 185, 300