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Introduction: Tribune and Teacher of the American People -- 1909-1929: Sightless Senior and the 'Boy Wonder' -- 1929-1935: "I Beg to Disagree" -- 1935-1942: "A Great Creature of the Earth" -- 1942-1947: "Spreading Like the Green Bay Tree" -- 1947-1954: "It Sure Is A Hard World" -- 1954-1959: "Why Are You So Damn Logical?" -- 1959-1963: "In Open Air Again" -- 1963-1967: "Kendall for King" -- Conclusion: 1977: "The Best Man of Bugtussle."

Willmoore Kendall was a man against the world, a "maverick," an "iconoclast," a man "who never lost an argument or kept a friend." He co-founded National Review, helped turn the word liberal into an insult, and became the chief theorist of conservative populism. Understanding Kendall helps us understand America.

A look at the most recent Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, for example, illustrates the continued membership losses for Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and the now expected gains for Mormons and the Assemblies of God. By demonstrating that the essence of their work shows that serious faith was precisely what produced religious winners, the authors do respond rather effectively to charges that their work was mere number crunching, without 'God or religion or spirituality' (p. xii).

'Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery' by Stephen R. Haynes is reviewed.

'When the Church Bell Rang Racist: The Methodist Church and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama' by Donald E. Collins is reviewed.

This book examines key twentieth-century philosophers, theologians, and social scientists who began their careers with commitments to the political left only later to reappraise or reject those commitments due to changes in the culture, economics, and politics.