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Memorial Church service, 11 a.m. The preacher will be the Reverend Richard R. Niebuhr...
Memorial Church service, 11 a.m. The preacher will be the Reverend Richard R. Niebuhr...
...prewar Georgia Governor and populist, gallus-snappin' Eugene Talmadge, was wont to tell his crowds: "Come see me at the mansion after I'm elected, and we'll set on the front porch and piss over the rail at them city bastards." Carter quotes Reinhold Niebuhr and Bob Dylan rather than traditional Southern heroes. He is more self-disciplined than many a Southerner, aloof to the point of loneliness...
...Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns and eagerly welcomed the author a few weeks later when she came to interview him. Recently Carter polished off General Maxwell Taylor's new book on national defense, Precarious Security. He is savoring Justice and Mercy, a collection of Niebuhr's sermons, addresses and prayers that was sent to him by the theologian's widow...
...most important book in his life is, of course, the Bible. Another that had profound impact was James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The book Reinhold Niebuhr on Politics was important in developing his attitude toward public life...