A M E R I C A N DEMOCRATIC

SOCIALISM

HISTORY, POLITICS, RELIGION, AND THEORY

GARY DORRIEN is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at

Columbia University.

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“Gary Dorrien is the greatest theological ethicist of the twenty-first century, our most compelling political theologian, and one of the most gifted historians of ideas in the world. His American Democratic Socialism is a work of astonishing erudition. Best of all, Dorrien is not only a searing chronicler of prophetic thought, but also a bold Christian participant in the historic quest for social justice.” MICHAEL ERIC DYSON, author of E n t e r t a i n i n g R a c e : P e r f o r m i n g Blackness in America

“American Democratic Socialism is a brilliant and timely book. Dorrien offers a big, ambitious, synthetic po-

litical and intellectual history of the whole American democratic socialist tradition, giving particular attention to religious socialists, the centrality of race in American politics, and the intellectual contributions of women.” GEOFFREY KURTZ, author of J e a n J a u r è s : T h e I n n e r L i f e o f Social Democracy yalebooks.com