The Rev. Jonah Dove is the son of a legendary Harlem minister, and a man troubled in both mind and spirit. He feels himself unworthy and incapable of taking up the burden of running his church from...

Kevin Baker is the bestselling author of the novels Dreamland , Paradise Alley , and Sometimes You See It Coming . He is a columnist for American Heritage magazine and a regular contributor to the...

"Engaging…[Baker] thoroughly captures the figures…and micropolitical climate of wartime Harlem…[and] lends the resulting fray a visceral reality."