A Catholic New Deal: Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh

by Kenneth J. Heineman

Book Overview

Our popular image of the era of the Great Depression is one of bread lines, labor wars, and leftist firebrands. Absent from this picture are religiously motivated social reformers, notably Catholic clergy and laity. In A Catholic New Deal , Kenneth Heineman rethinks the religious roots of labor organizing and social reform in America during the 1930s. He focuses on Pittsburgh, the leading industrial city of the time, a key center for the rise of American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271018968
• ISBN13: 9780271018966
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"