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What They Wished For: American Catholics and American Presidents, 1960-2004
Lawrence McAndrews
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Hardcover. Though divided by race, class, gender, and party, Catholics have influenced issues of war and peace, social justice, and life and death among modern presidents in a profound way, from President Kennedy's election to John Kerry's run. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRAM2; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 839.
As a religious bloc, Roman Catholics constitute the most populous religious denomination in the United States, comprising one in four Americans. With the election of John F. Kennedy as president in 1960, they attained a political prominence to match their rapidly ascending socioeconomic and cultural profile. From Vietnam to Iraq, the civil rights movement to federal funding for faith-based initiatives, and from birth control to abortion, American Catholics have won at least as often as they have lost. What They Wished For by Lawrence J. McAndrews traces the role of American Catholics in presidential policies and politics from 1960 until ... Read more
As a religious bloc, Roman Catholics constitute the most populous religious denomination in the United States, comprising one in four Americans. With the election of John F. Kennedy as president in 1960, they attained a political prominence to match their rapidly ascending socioeconomic and cultural profile. From Vietnam to Iraq, the civil rights movement to federal funding for faith-based initiatives, and from birth control to abortion, American Catholics have won at least as often as they have lost. What They Wished For by Lawrence J. McAndrews traces the role of American Catholics in presidential policies and politics from 1960 until ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820346830
SKU
V9780820346830
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About Lawrence McAndrews
Lawrence J. McAndrews is a professor of history at St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin.
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