American Catholics: A History

by Leslie Woodcock Tentler

A sweeping history of American Catholicism from the arrival of the first Spanish missionaries to the present

"Tentler does justice to James Joyce's quip that Catholicism means 'here comes everybody.' This is the story of everybody--lay people, sisters, priests--who was part of the church in the United States, a story insightfully analyzed and admirably told. A definitive synthesis."--James M. O'Toole, author of The Faithful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300219644
• ISBN13: 9780300219647
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.4"