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The World Crisis and American Responsibility
The World Crisis and American Responsibility Author:Reinhold Niebuhr, Ernest W. Lefever Reinhold Niebuhr, world-renowned theologian, Vice-President, Union Theological Seminary and, additionally, one of the nation's most incisive and influential writers on the U.S. in world affairs, has written many brilliant analyses on the world crisis and American responsibility. This original Reflection Book brings a unified selection of these e... more »ssays to represent Dr. Niebuhr's applications of Christian principles to national and world problems. Edited by Ernest W. Lefever, analyst of U.S. Foreign Policy, Library of Congress, author of Ethics and United States Foreign Policy. Here are Dr. Niebuhr's analyses of the nature of our crisis; our moral resources for coping with it; the evil in communism; U.S. nationalism; moral implications of loyalty to the UN; the illusion of world government; peace and cultural cooperation; limits of military power; and our post-Sputnik and Explorer situation.« less