American Prophet

Author : Peter Richardson
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520304291

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American Prophet by Peter Richardson Pdf

“A fascinating portrait of activism deepened and sustained by Herculean labors of research and investigation.”—The Nation Historian Kevin Starr described Carey McWilliams as "the finest nonfiction writer on California—ever" and "the state's most astute political observer." But as Peter Richardson argues, McWilliams was also one of the nation's most versatile and productive public intellectuals of his time. Richardson's absorbing and elegant biography traces McWilliams's extraordinary life and career. Drawing from a wide range of sources, it explores his childhood on a Colorado cattle ranch, his early literary journalism in Los Angeles, his remarkable legal and political activism, his stint in state government, the explosion of first-rate books between 1939 and 1950, and his editorial leadership at The Nation. Along the way, it also documents McWilliams's influence on a wide range of key figures, including Cesar Chavez, Hunter S. Thompson, Mike Davis, screenwriter Robert Towne, playwright Luis Valdez, and historian Patricia Limerick.

Author : Albert J. Raboteau
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400874408

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American Prophets by Albert J. Raboteau Pdf

A "powerful text" (Tavis Smiley) about how religion drove the fight for social justice in modern America American Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives and thought of seven major prophetic figures in twentieth-century America whose social activism was motivated by a deeply felt compassion for those suffering injustice. In this compelling and provocative book, acclaimed religious scholar Albert Raboteau tells the remarkable stories of Abraham Joshua Heschel, A. J. Muste, Dorothy Day, Howard Thurman, Thomas Merton, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Fannie Lou Hamer—inspired individuals who succeeded in conveying their vision to the broader public through writing, speaking, demonstrating, and organizing. Raboteau traces how their paths crossed and their lives intertwined, creating a network of committed activists who significantly changed the attitudes of several generations of Americans about contentious political issues such as war, racism, and poverty. Raboteau examines the influences that shaped their ideas and the surprising connections that linked them together. He discusses their theological and ethical positions, and describes the rhetorical and strategic methods these exemplars of modern prophecy used to persuade their fellow citizens to share their commitment to social change. A momentous scholarly achievement as well as a moving testimony to the human spirit, American Prophets represents a major contribution to the history of religion in American politics. This book is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about social justice, or who wants to know what prophetic thought and action can mean in today's world.

Author : Bruce Feiler
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780061939259

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America's Prophet by Bruce Feiler Pdf

Bruce Feiler’s New York Times bestsellers Abraham, Walking the Bible, and Where God Was Born brilliantly explored the roots of faith. With America’s Prophet, Feiler looks at Moses and the essential role the prophet has played in our nation’s history and development. Bruce Feiler’s most fascinating and thought-provoking book to date, America’s Prophet delves deeply into how the Exodus story and America’s true “Spiritual Founding Father” have inspired many of the most important figures and defining events in this country’s history—from the Mayflower Pilgrims to the Civil Rights movement—and how Moses can provide meaning in times of national crisis, even today.

Author : Edward J. Blum
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812204506

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W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet by Edward J. Blum Pdf

Pioneering historian, sociologist, editor, novelist, poet, and organizer, W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the foremost African American intellectuals of the twentieth century. While Du Bois is remembered for his monumental contributions to scholarship and civil rights activism, the spiritual aspects of his work have been misunderstood, even negated. W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet, the first religious biography of this leader, illuminates the spirituality that is essential to understanding his efforts and achievements in the political and intellectual world. Often labeled an atheist, Du Bois was in fact deeply and creatively involved with religion. Historian Edward J. Blum reveals how spirituality was central to Du Bois's approach to Marxism, pan-Africanism, and nuclear disarmament, his support for black churches, and his reckoning of the spiritual wage of white supremacy. His writings, teachings, and prayers served as articles of faith for fellow activists of his day, from student book club members to Langston Hughes. A blend of history, sociology, literary criticism, and religious reflection in the model of Du Bois's best work, W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet recasts the life of this great visionary and intellectual for a new generation of scholars and activists. Honorable Mention, 2007 Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Awards

Author : D. H. Dilbeck
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781469636191

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Frederick Douglass by D. H. Dilbeck Pdf

From his enslavement to freedom, Frederick Douglass was one of America's most extraordinary champions of liberty and equality. Throughout his long life, Douglass was also a man of profound religious conviction. In this concise and original biography, D. H. Dilbeck offers a provocative interpretation of Douglass's life through the lens of his faith. In an era when the role of religion in public life is as contentious as ever, Dilbeck provides essential new perspective on Douglass's place in American history. Douglass came to faith as a teenager among African American Methodists in Baltimore. For the rest of his life, he adhered to a distinctly prophetic Christianity. Imitating the ancient Hebrew prophets and Jesus Christ, Douglass boldly condemned evil and oppression, especially when committed by the powerful. Dilbeck shows how Douglass's prophetic Christianity provided purpose and unity to his wide-ranging work as an author, editor, orator, and reformer. As "America's Prophet," Douglass exposed his nation's moral failures and hypocrisies in the hopes of creating a more just society. He admonished his fellow Americans to truly abide by the political and religious ideals they professed to hold most dear. Two hundred years after his birth, Douglass's prophetic voice remains as timely as ever.

Author : Sidney Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004423745

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Edgar Cayce by Sidney Kirkpatrick Pdf

Chronicles the life of American psychic Edgar Cayce and discusses how his work was used by prominent world leaders, scientists, and Hollywood producers.

Author : Jack Jenkins
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062936004

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American Prophets by Jack Jenkins Pdf

From one of the country’s most respected religion reporters, a paradigm-shifting discussion of how the Religious Left is actually the moral compass that has long steered America’s political debates, including today. Since the ascendancy of the Religious Right in the 1970s, common wisdom holds that it is a coalition of fundamentalist powerbrokers who are the “moral majority,” setting the standard for conservative Christian values and working to preserve the status quo. But, as national religion reporter Jack Jenkins contends, the country is also driven by a vibrant, long-standing moral force from the left. Constituting an amorphous group of interfaith activists that goes by many names and takes many forms, this coalition has operated since America’s founding — praying, protesting, and marching for common goals that have moved society forward. Throughout our history, the Religious Left has embodied and championed the progressive values at the heart of American democracy—abolition, labor reform, civil rights, environmental preservation. Drawing on his years of reporting, Jenkins examines the re-emergence of progressive faith-based activism, detailing its origins and contrasting its goals with those of the Religious Right. Today’s rapidly expanding interfaith coalition — which includes Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and other faiths — has become a force within the larger “resistance” movement. Jenkins profiles Washington political insiders—including former White House staffers and faith outreach directors for the campaigns of Barack Obama, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton—as well as a new generation of progressive faith leaders at the forefront today, including: Rev. William Barber II, leader of North Carolina’s Moral Mondays and co-chair of the nationwide Poor People’s campaign Linda Sarsour, co-chair of the Women’s March Rev. Traci Blackmon, a pastor near Ferguson, Missouri who works to lift up black liberation efforts across the country Sister Simone Campbell, head of the Catholic social justice lobby and the “Nuns on the Bus” tour organizer Native American “water protectors” who demonstrated against the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock Bishop Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop An exciting reevaluation of America’s moral center and an inspiring portrait of progressive faith-in-action, American Prophets will change the way we think about the intersection of politics and religion.

Author : Jeffrey Rosen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300160444

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Louis D. Brandeis by Jeffrey Rosen Pdf

According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was “the Jewish Jefferson,” the greatest critic of what he called “the curse of bigness,” in business and government, since the author of the Declaration of Independence. Published to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of his Supreme Court confirmation on June 1, 1916, Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet argues that Brandeis was the most farseeing constitutional philosopher of the twentieth century. In addition to writing the most famous article on the right to privacy, he also wrote the most important Supreme Court opinions about free speech, freedom from government surveillance, and freedom of thought and opinion. And as the leader of the American Zionist movement, he convinced Woodrow Wilson and the British government to recognize a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Combining narrative biography with a passionate argument for why Brandeis matters today, Rosen explores what Brandeis, the Jeffersonian prophet, can teach us about historic and contemporary questions involving the Constitution, monopoly, corporate and federal power, technology, privacy, free speech, and Zionism.

Author : Robert Fanning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015080899209

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American Prophet by Robert Fanning Pdf

Poetry. At once lyrical, humorous, heartbreaking, bitter, and wry--this engaging collection introduces a character like none other seen in the history of poetry. AMERICAN PROPHET is a collection of poems that details the sojourns of a so-called Prophet across the American landscape, from coastal beaches to strip malls to cities to heartland farms. As the Prophet tries continually but fails to reach "his people," his urgent messages go unnoticed or get swallowed by the machines and cacophony of contemporary America.

Author : Edward J. Blum
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812240108

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W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet by Edward J. Blum Pdf

Biography of civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois, which argues that, despite his often being labeled an atheist, his religious and spiritual insights are actually central to understanding his political and intellectual work.

Author : Duane L. Ostler
Publisher : Duane L Ostler
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781310473340

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James Madison American Prophet by Duane L. Ostler Pdf

Rather amazingly, James Madison foresaw many of the problems we face in America today. He foresaw our modern obsession with individual rights, the dangers of judicial activism, the problems of a war presidency, and the economic difficulties that can bring a nation to ruin. Most importantly, as America's preeminent political visionary, he also saw how these problems can be solved.

Author : Andre E. Johnson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780739167144

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The Forgotten Prophet by Andre E. Johnson Pdf

The Forgotten Prophet: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the African American Prophetic Tradition, by Andre E. Johnson, is a study of the prophetic rhetoric of nineteenth century African Methodist Episcopal Church bishop Henry McNeal Turner. By locating Turner within the African American prophetic tradition, Johnson examines how Bishop Turner adopted a prophetic persona. As one of America's earliest black activists and social reformers, Bishop Turner made an indelible mark in American history and left behind an enduring social influence through his speeches, writings, and prophetic addresses. This text offers a definition of prophetic rhetoric and examines the existing genres of prophetic discourse, suggesting that there are other types of prophetic rhetorics, especially within the African American prophetic tradition. In examining these modes of discourses from 1866-1895, this study further examines how Turner's rhetoric shifted over time. It examines how Turner found a voice to article not only his views and positions, but also in the prophetic tradition, the views of people he claimed to represent. The Forgotten Prophet is a significant contribution to the study of Bishop Turner and the African American prophetic tradition.

Author : Solomon Spaulding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : America
ISBN : HARVARD:32044014400717

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The "manuscript Found" by Solomon Spaulding Pdf

Author : Terrie Dopp Aamodt,Gary Land,Ronald L. Numbers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199373864

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Ellen Harmon White by Terrie Dopp Aamodt,Gary Land,Ronald L. Numbers Pdf

Ellen Harmon White was a founder and prophet of the Seventh-day Adventists. This volume traces her 70-year path from timid teenage visionary to octogenarian speaker, publisher, and structural architect of her church.

Author : Arthur Walworth
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Presidents
ISBN : 0393090124

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Woodrow Wilson by Arthur Walworth Pdf