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FDR, the Vatican, and the Roman Catholic Church in America, 1933-1945 (World of the Roosevelt's)
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Woolner, David B.; Kurial, Richard G.; Woolner, R. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBWN; HBWQ; HRCC7; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 548.
American Catholics had long been a crucial voting bloc in the United States, particularly in the Democratic Party. With the nation mired in economic depression and the threat of war looming across the Atlantic, in 1932 Catholics had to weigh, perhaps more seriously than ever before, political allegiance versus religious affiliation. Many chose party over religion, electing Frankiln D. Roosevelt, a Protestant. No stone goes unturned in this volume, which grew out of an international conference in 1998 held at the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in Hyde Park, New York. From the multiplicity of Catholic responses to the New ... Read more
American Catholics had long been a crucial voting bloc in the United States, particularly in the Democratic Party. With the nation mired in economic depression and the threat of war looming across the Atlantic, in 1932 Catholics had to weigh, perhaps more seriously than ever before, political allegiance versus religious affiliation. Many chose party over religion, electing Frankiln D. Roosevelt, a Protestant. No stone goes unturned in this volume, which grew out of an international conference in 1998 held at the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in Hyde Park, New York. From the multiplicity of Catholic responses to the New ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
295
Condition
New
Series
The World of the Roosevelt's
Number of Pages
295
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403961686
SKU
V9781403961686
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99-15
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DAVID B. WOOLNER is Executive Director of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and Assistant Professor of History at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, USA. He is the editor of The Second Quebec Conference Revisited: Waging War, Formulating Peace - Canada, Great Britain and the United States in 1944-1945 (Palgrave, 1998). RICHARD KURIAL is Dean of Arts and Associate Professor of ... Read more
Reviews for FDR, the Vatican, and the Roman Catholic Church in America, 1933-1945 (World of the Roosevelt's)
"Taken as a set, these stimulating essays shed new light upon the complex relationships between Franklin Roosevelt and the American Catholic community during the New Deal and between the United States and the Vatican during World War II. The book covers a remarkable range of personalities, issues and controversies and is especially insightful in exploring the multifaceted wartime diplomacy between ... Read more