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  <title><![CDATA[The Irony of American History (Scribner Library of Contemporary Classics)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Reinhold Niebuhr]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I already had on file a quote from Reinhold Niebuhr when I came across The Irony of American History (University of Chicago Press, $17.00) in a spring catalog, so my interest was already piqued. Sagely seizing on that interest, my venerable sales rep Henry J. Hubert sent me a copy to review. I'm gla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19385743">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Jun 16 23:37:04 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Many of those interested in philosophical works on international relations begin with Hans Morgenthau's &quot;Politics among Nations.&quot;  Still others, more entrenched in the milieu of scientism pick up the completely abstract and useless positivist &quot;Theory of International Politics&quot; by...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24686721">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Our moral perils are not those of conscious malice or the explicit lust for power.  They are the perils which can be understood only if we realize the ironic tendency of virtues to turn into vices when too complacently relied upon; and of power to become vexatious if the wisdom which directs i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39000025">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Its hard to think of an American philosopher who’s stock is ridding higher (even setting aside that its hard to think of another American philosopher trading higher than Enron). Neibuhr’s <em>Irony</em> was cited as a favorite philosophical text by both political parties and makes up the pantheon of Very...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53971228">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Jun 18 21:09:50 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22472">NYRB</a>: &quot;Andrew J. Bacevich, in his introduction to the republished edition of Reinhold Niebuhr's <em>The Irony of American History</em>, calls it 'the most important book ever written on US foreign policy'. Certainly it would be hard to think of another book from the 1950s that retains, nearly sixty year...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60256162">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58077729">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Niebuhr wrote in the mid 1900's when the US had public intellectuals, I think last one of those we've had was Susan Sontag.  Anyway, Niebuhr wrote about religion and it's effect on American society.  In this book which was written around 1950 when the U.S. and Russia were engaged in the Cold War, Ni...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58077729">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22208645">
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  <date_added>Tue May 13 22:12:58 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[After having read &quot;Moral Man and Immoral Society&quot;, I was perhaps a bit disappointed that the main ideas of the 2 books were so similar. &quot;Moral Man...&quot; struck me in a way few books had before; my one criticism of that book was that he seems just a bit too enamored of Marx's ideas ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22208645">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9516968">
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jul 13 10:05:41 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think the last two chapters summarized what Niebuhr is getting at.  I originally heard about it when I was watching an episode of &quot;Bill Moyers' Journal&quot; and his guest was theologist James Cone.  Cone has written extensively about black liberation theology.  Niebuhr is one of the thinkers...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9516968">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58348231">
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 11 16:58:59 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jun 11 16:58:59 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[When an author is recommended by the President of the United States, a respected academic, and the manager of the NY Mets, it's hard to resist the compulsion to read them. I'm very glad I did. Niebuhr is excellent with what is still a refreshing and pertinent view of humanity and the USA. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58348231">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59414879">
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    <body><![CDATA[Catching up on my NYRB reading last night, I came across a review of this book (in group review, with new books by Bacevich and Taub re limits of American power, by Brian Urquhart).  I vaguely knew of Niebuhr by theological reputation (as I recall, MLK Jr. mentions him in &quot;Letter from B'ham Jai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59414879">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48614813">
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    <body><![CDATA[An indication of how far to the right our country has gone is that when I first encountered Niebuhr 35 years ago he was considered a conservative now his is being lauded by what the wing nuts are calling a socialist president.<br/><br/>In spite of that he has some interesting insights into the Ame...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48614813">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very insightful. Well worth reading. Also very poorly written -- turgid academic prose, and doesn't get to the thesis til the last chapter -- but makes up for it with quality of thought.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty interesting book written in the 50's that provides amazing insight into things that are happening today politically.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written in the early days of the Cold War, this book is still relevant during the &quot;War on Terror.&quot;  Niebuhr, one of Barack Obama's favorite writers, was a left-liberal Christian theologian who hated Communism but had a clear view of America's &quot;ironies&quot; -- ie, how our nation's gre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21480959">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just wrote a twelve-page paper on this book, so there's a lot I could say about it. Suffice it to say that this is a Christian theologian writing during the Cold War showing how communism and liberalism are essentially the same doctrines, and both are fraudulent and dangerous. While I might not ne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7117860">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Theology - Christian Realism<br/>see &quot;Obama's Theologian&quot; from SoF]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This looks really good, and a pleasant break from recent material!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[All right, I didn't finish this one either.  I'd heard so many good things about it, my expectations were pretty high.  I'm just finding it terribly dated - a cold war bound book filled with the horrors of nuclear weapons.  Fortunately those issues are less relevant today, and nothing else in the bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55778776">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was just reprinted because of its relevance to our current political situation.  Neibuhr explains how moral values and presumptions affect political decisions in a way I never could, but have often felt nettled by over the last 8 years.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Noam Chomsky said that this book should be required reading for every resident of the United States. I tend to agree with him.]]></body>
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