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When asked at a press conference about the roots of his political philosophy, President Franklin Roosevelt responded, "I am a Christian and a Democrat." This volume tells the story of how the first informed the second, showing how FDR's upbringing formed him into a leader whose politics were fundamentally shaped by the social gospel.

Robert Hallowell Gardiner III was the heart and soul of the Progressive Era's movement to establish cooperation among all Christian churches. The author incorporates Gardiner's letters, his published speeches and family records, to present a biography of a man who was a seminal figure in the early twentieth-century Christian ecumenical movement.

The Education of Phillips Brooks probes the formative years of one of the best-known figures of Victorian America's "Gilded Age". Rigorously researched, bringing as yet untapped archival material into play, John F. Woolverton's book is an extremely readable and fascinating look at a gifted, persuasive clergyman and public figure. The sermon Brooks delivered at his Holy Trinity Church in Philadelphia while Abraham Lincoln's body lay in state ov...