“An illuminating account of the life and legacy of Howard Thurman. . . . This should go far to raise the profile of a lesser-known spiritual leader whose writings, sermons, and mentorship helped lay the foundation for the civil rights movement.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Booklist
“Although celebrated during his lifetime, Thurman’s star went into eclipse following his death. Surely this judicious, insightful biography will help restore its lost luster.”
“Howard Thurman was one of the few great intellectual giants and spiritual geniuses of the twentieth century! Paul Harvey is keeping his legacy alive!”
— Cornel West
author of Race Matters
“In a time beset by myriad tribulations, Howard Thurman is a religious and social thinker that Americans desperately need to get to know better. Paul Harvey’s book is a little gem, the first short scholarly biography of Thurman, and an eloquent distillation of his life and thought.”
— Peter Eisenstadt
author of Against the Hounds of Hell: A Biography of Howard Thurman
“Paul Harvey’s timely and well-documented work, Howard Thurman and the Disinherited, is the first critical biography on this renowned religious thinker and American prophet. Harvey masterfully weaves together Thurman’s distinctive interpretation of mysticism and social action, his experimentation with ecclesiology as a center for worship, and his prophetic insight and analysis of democracy as an unfinished spiritual and ethical project. Academic, religious, and general readers alike will find the book accessible and helpful in learning more about this still-enigmatic figure in American history and culture.”
— Walter Earl Fluker
Boston University and Candler School of Theology
editor and director, The Howard Thurman Papers Project
