Librarian retreats on Serenity Prayer
Original author back in next Yale book
Posted: November 29, 2009 at 3:36 a.m.
The Yale librarian who cast doubt last year on the origins of the Serenity Prayer, adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous and reprinted on countless knickknacks, says new evidence has persuaded him to retain the famed Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr as the author in the next edition of The Yale Book of Quotations.
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Front Section, Pages 4 on 11/29/2009
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