The constant dialogue : Reinhold Niebuhr and American intellectual culture / Martin Halliwell.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-351) and index.

Introduction : Niebuhr and American intellectual culture -- Pt. I. The intellectual family : pragmatism, religion and ethics, 1910s-1940s -- 1. 'Half-truths set against half-truths' : James and Neibuhr -- 2. A certain blindness to liberalism : Dewey and Niebuhr -- 3. Crossing the invisible boundary : Tillich and Niebuhr -- 4. Soldiers in the same division : the Niebuhr brothers -- Pt. II. Wider dialogues : cultural, national and political identity, 1940s-1970s -- 5. 'Digging about in the slime' : Niebuhr and American psychoanalysis -- 6. The myths and dramas of history : Niebuhr and postwar culture -- 7. 'The Achilles' heel of democracy' : Niebuhr and U.S. foreign policy -- 8. The new face of love : Niebuhr and the civil rights movement -- Conclusion : Niebuhr and the search for leadership.