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Article: Catholic Intellectuals and Conservative Politics in America, 1950-85.
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- February 11, 1994
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CATHOLIC INTELLECTUALS AND CONSERVATIVE POLITICS IN AMERICA, 1950-85
Patrick Allitt
Cornell University Press, $29.95, 306 pp.
Patrick Allitt's fascinating book on conservative Catholic intellectuals makes an important contribution to the history of American Catholicism from the confident fifties to the unsettling eighties. The painful irony at the heart of this study is related to timing: "the centrality of Catholicism to the conservative movement diminished just as the movement itself was coming to power." Allitt raises some suggestive questions about the intellectual genealogy of the next generation of conservative Catholics and should ...