A Catholic Cold War : Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the politics of American Catholic anticommunism / Patrick McNamara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McNamara, Patrick, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Cold War.

Church and state--Catholic Church.

Church and state.

Jesuits--United States--Biography.

Jesuits.

Walsh, Edmund A. (Edmund Aloysius), 1885-1956--Political and social views.

Walsh, Edmund A.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is the first biography in 42 years of the priest and educator whom historians have called the most important anticommunist in the country. Founder of Georgetown University's influential School of Foreign Services, Edmund A. Walsh is one of the most influential Catholic figures of the 20th century. A pioneer in the new science of geopolitics, Walsh wrote four books, dozens of articles, and gave thousands of speeches on the moral and political threat of Soviet Communism in America. Walsh left an indelible imprint on the ideology and practical politics of Cold War Washington, moving easily outside the traditional boundaries of American Catholic life and becoming, in the words of one historian, practically an institution by himself.

Contents:

Edmund A. Walsh : Bostonian, Jesuit, activist, and educator

"What think ye of Russia?": Walsh and Catholic anticommunism in the 1920s

"The two standards" : Walsh and American Catholic anticommunisms, 1929-41

"An American geopolitics" : Walsh and wartime Catholic anticommunism, 1941-45

"The spiritual and material menace threatening the present generation" : Walsh and Catholic anticommunism in the Cold War, 1946-56.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173] 267) and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-4753-8

OCLC:

794702328