A Catholic Cold War: Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the Politics of American Anticommunism

by Patrick McNamara

This book is the first biography in 42 years of the priest and educator whomhistorians have called "the most important anticommunist in the country." Edmund A. Walsh, as dean of Georgetown College and founder in 1919 of itsSchool of Foreign Service, is one of the most influential Catholic figures of the20th century. Soon after the birth of the Bolshevik state, he directed the Papal Relief Mission in the Soviet Union, starting a lifelong immersion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823224597
• ISBN13: 9780823224593
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"