Harry Emerson Fosdick

by RobertMoats Miller

A major figure in American religious and cultural history, Fosdick was famous as a preacher, a pacifist and a champion of civil rights. He was also the author of forty-seven books. "A brilliant biography of the religious leader whose pulpit was Riverside Church, and whose parish was all America." -- The Washington Post. "Miller has...written a thoughtful biography of a highly influential Protestant leader. He adeptly locates Fosdick within the wider social and cultural history of the period. He has achieved a mastery not only of the historical literature about the era but also of the complex theological literature of Fosdick's day. He ventures sharp judgments and criticisms of Fosdick and his contemporaries, and yet does so with balance and generosity." -- E. Brooks Holifield, Reviews in American History.