A Catholic in the White House?: Religion, Politics, and John F. Kennedy's Presidential Campaign

by Thomas J. Carty

Book Overview

According to most political and religious scholars and pundits, JFK's victory in 1960 symbolized America's evolution from a Protestant nation to a pluralist community that included Catholics as all citizens. However, if the presidential election of 1960 was indeed a turning point for American Catholics, how do we explain the failure of any Catholic - in over forty years - to repeat Kennedy's accomplishment? In this exhaustively researched study that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403962529
• ISBN13: 9781403962522
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"