William Sloane Coffin, Jr: A Holy Impatience

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Yale University Press, 1. nov. 2005 - 379 sider

A magnet for controversy, the media, and followers, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr. was the premier voice of northern religious liberalism for more than a quarter-century, and a worthy heir to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. From his pulpits at Yale University and, later, New York City's Riverside Church, Coffin focused national attention on civil rights, the anti-Vietnam War movement, disarmament, and gay rights. This revealing biography--based on unparalleled access to family papers and candid interviews with Coffin, his colleagues, family, friends, lovers, and wives--tells for the first time the remarkable story of Coffin's life.

An army and CIA veteran before assuming the post of Yale University chaplain at the youthful age of 33, Coffin gained notoriety as a leader of a dangerous civil rights Freedom Ride in 1961, as a defendant in the "Boston Five" trial of draft resisters in 1969, and as the preeminent voice of liberal religious dissent into the 1980s. This book encompasses Coffin's turbulent private life as well as his flamboyant, joyful public career, while dramatically illuminating the larger social movements that consumed his days and defined his times.

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The Great War Greenwich Village and the Upper East Side
1
Early Years
12
Europe Music and War
24
Russians White and Red
42
The Education of a WarriorPriest
64
From Education to Vocation
86
BusRiding Chaplain
103
Preaching the Word Coffin in Demand
129
Activist Episodes
249
Interregnum
270
Down by the Riverside
284
Flunking Retirement
313
A Holy Impatience
320
Epilogue
334
Sources
337
Notes
339

Wading into the Big Muddy
145
Moments of Truth Civil Disobedience and the Draft
183
Marriage and Family Life
225

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Warren Goldstein earned his B.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale. He is associate professor of history and chair of the department of history at the University of Hartford. His essays and reviews have appeared in Lingua Franca, the Gettysburg Review, the New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, The Nation, and many other publications, and his books include the prize-winning Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball.

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