Reinhold Niebuhr in the 1960s

The Civil Rights Movement. The Cuban Missile Crisis. The assassination of a president and a senator, both from the same family. Praise turns into protest; hope into disenchantment, as democracy's new day goes up in flames. The 1960's was an era born in hope and ends in deep conflict.

During this era, Reinhold Niebuhr, once dubbed "America's theologian," retires from Union Seminary in New York. Thou...