A review by kristenmstewart
American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country by Jack Jenkins

5.0

This is an enjoyable series of vignettes describing leaders associated with the religious left, though most of them wouldn't embrace that term. There is a good deal of reporting on different movements and moments in the last five years or so and how religious leaders played a part. Jack is a journalist, not a sociologist or a historian, so it is shorter on conclusions, but if you read between the lines of his analysis, there is plenty here to diagnose why the religious left doesn't function like the religious right does. (9/10).