| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

William Sloane Coffin Jr.: A Holy Impatience. By Warren Goldstein. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xvi, 379 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-10221-6.)

On several occasions in this splendid, well-researched biography, Warren Goldstein observes that William Sloane Coffin Jr. (now eighty years old) has been the second most influential Protestant leader of the past forty years; only Martin Luther King Jr. had a larger public impact. But with the half-exception of Coffin's 1977 memoir, Once to Every Man, there has been no substantial account of his life and career. Goldstein fills the gap with an absorbing narrative that corrects Coffin's memoir on a few points, benefits from Coffin's extensive cooperation, and emphasizes his political activism, prophetic preaching, and troubled marriages.

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