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Article: FDR, the Vatican, and the Roman Catholic Church in America, 1933-1945.(Book Review)
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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FDR, the Vatican, and the Roman Catholic Church in America, 1933-1945. Edited by David B. Woolner and Richard G. Kurial. New York: Palgrave, 2003. 295 pp.
FDR, the Vatican, and the Roman Catholic Church in America, 1933-1945 succeeds on two separate levels. In the first place, it offers a varied and informative account of a very important and interesting era in American Catholic history, an era during which the Roman Catholic Church and its concerns resided at the very center of the American political debate. At the same time, the volume also succeeds at inviting its readers, on the basis of that historical account, to examine more closely the role that the ...