For those who still want to believe that a full JFK presidency would surely have led to an American Camelot, this book is not for you.

As one reviewer observed, “She began by writing about sidewalks and finished with an account of Western civilization itself.”

'Beyond Civil Rights,' by Daniel Geary

'The Prophet of Cuernavaca,' by Todd Hartch

'Strange Glory,' by Charles Marsh

We know for sure that someone is permanently relevant when his or her name becomes an adjective In the week mdash last week of March 2014 mdash I finished the most recent of the very many intellectual biographies of George Orwell his adjectived name appeared twice in Brooklyn in our diocesan news

In his very first sentence Denys Turner professor of historical theology at Yale University tells us that in his portrait of that most Catholic of Catholic philosopher-theologians St Thomas Aquinas 1225-74 ldquo I have not until undertaking this work given more careful consideration to an i

Ross Douthat has written a learned yet highly readable analysis of the changing role of religion in American history.

Why the pro-life movement should return to its roots

Charles Morris has written several acclaimed books mdash on the Gilded Age financial crises the A A R P I B M the arms race New York City and the Catholic Church in America He writes like the best professor you ever had mdash no dumbing down presenting complex material in an engaging manner