Collection: Elisabeth Sifton

Elisabeth Sifton (1939-2019) was an editor and book publisher.  She was the author of The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War (2004), about the background to the famous prayer written by her father, Reinhold Niebuhr.
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