Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics (Loa #263): Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic / Moral Man and Immoral Society / The Chi

The indispensable Library of America, the most useful publishing venture in American letters, has produced an edition of Niebuhr s major works, annotated by Niebuhr s daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, a highly regarded editor and publisher.  It belongs in the library of every student of U. S. foreign policy."  Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs

Reading his work today, amid our own challenges of social inequality and imperial hubris, suggests we still need Niebuhr s insight as much as ever. Adam Kirsch, The New York Review of Books

A fine introduction to one of the 20th century s most influential intellectuals. Barton Swaim, The Wall Street Journal