A definitive collection of the theologian and public intellectual who was the
conscience of the American Century. One of my favorite philosophers, remarked
Barack Obama about the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) in 2007.
President Obama is but one of the many American political leaders--including
Jimmy Carter and Martin Luther King Jr.--to be influenced by Niebuhr's writings.
Throughout the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, Niebuhr was one of
the most prominent public voices of his time, probing with singular style the
question of how to act morally in a fallen world. This Library of America
volume, prepared by Niebuhr's daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, collects four
indispensable books: