This is a well-researched, clearly written, personal and intellectual biography of intellectual, theologian, preacher, mystic, and civil rights leader Howard Thurman (1899-1981), whose is receiving renewed attention.
Amanda Brown is an American intellectual and cultural historian and an adjunct professor of History at Lehigh University. She earned a Ph.D. in History as well as an M.A. in American Studies from Lehigh and she also holds B.A.'s in American Studies and Advertising from Penn State University.