Courage to Change: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr
Language: English
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1961
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Theoria Books, Andover, MA, U.S.A.Theoria Books
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414 pp., xii. ' A-10.61 [H] ' on Copyright page. Following the Prologue: "The Camera's Angle" and first two Chapters, Contents divided into 3 Parts and a total of 25 Chapters: (1) "The Speaker"; (2) "The Words"; Part I: A DOUBLE EXPOSURE (3) "The Man" ; (4) "The Method"; Part II: FLASHBACKS AND CLOSE-UPS (5) "The Freedom of Boyhood"; (6) "The Concept of Freedom"; (7) "The Anxious Student"; (8) "The Anxious Self"; (9) "The Man of God"; (10) "The God of Man"; (11) "The Sin of Ford"; (12) The Sin of the INdividual"; (13) "The Seminary and the City"; (14) The Sin of Society"; (15) "Love and Marriage"; (17) "Working with the Liberals"; (18) Battling with the Liberals"; (19) "No Rest for the Prophet"; (20) "The Concepts of the Prophet"; (21) "Transatlantic Salesman"; (22) "Selling Democracy"; [23] "With One Hand Tied . . ."; [24] "But Still Fighting"; Part III: THE UNFINISHED REEL: [25]"The Growing Edge"; [25] "The Open End"; List of Niebuhr's Books, pp. 405-406; Index, pp. 409-414. Dustwrapper not price-clipped ($7.50) with front cover photo-portrait of Niebuhr looking at reader, superimposed upon a medium blue background, above a black band across lower third front cover for Title lettering in large orange letters and Author name lettering in light blue letters across bottom front cover. White locations of dustwrapper are lightly, unevenly age-toned; spine lettering sharp and distinct with minor diminishing of coloring of lettering; wear at cover corners and spine corners, as across spine ends: Now in Brodart mylar, which graciously forgives all sins. Book itself is blue cloth with very small tip rubbing, else no rubbing wear (dustwrapper did its job). Tight binding (NO creases); 3 corners slightly bumped (small curls); NO remainder marks. Clean text. Previous owner ex-libris sticker (2" x 1 3/8") affixed to inside front cover so that it can be seen between inside front dw paenel and book hinge: that of Lawrence S. Kubie (from New York Times obit: "Dr. Kubie, who was described by colleagues as an orthodox Freudian psychoanalyst who constantly challenged orthodoxies of all kinds, including this own, had lectured widely and written several books and many article on his specialty. / He had practiced in New York from 1930 to 1959 and had been on the faculties of six medical schools and on the staffs of as many hospitals. / He was formerly on the faculties of the College of Phy sicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; the Yale School of Medicine and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute; and had served on the staffs of the Neurological Institute of New York and Mount Sinai Hospital. / Dr. Kubie was the author of Practical and Theoretical Aspects of Psychoanalysis and Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process, and many articles. Ho was past editor of The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders. /He was formerly president of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and the American Psychosomatic Society, secretary of the American Psychoanalytic Association and a member of the New York Academy of Medicine." Laid in: Martin E. Marty's review of Niebuhr's "Man's Nature and His Communities" "The protesting Protestant", although the review is not complete, but a review by Philip Rhav of Philip Rieff's "The Triumph of the Psychotherapeutic" is included in full , pp. 3, 4, 17, 18 of Book Week for February 6, 1966 (placed in book between ffep Verso and Half-Title page, creating offsetting on Half-Title page). Solid , the way to read a Christian Theologian's Classic biography, more than 60 years-old. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Courage to Change: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr
- Author
- June Bingham
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
- Publication year
- 1961
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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