A major new biography of the well-loved and controversial priest and president of Notre Dame University who served as an adviser to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, and Clinton.
REVEREND WILSON D. (BILL) MISCAMBLE, C.S.C., joined the permanent faculty in the History Department at Notre Dame in 1988. He chaired the History Department from 1993 to 1998. He also served as Rector and Superior of Moreau Seminary (2000 to 2004), the principal formation site for the Congregation of Holy Cross in North America. Fr. Miscamble's primary research interests are American foreign policy since World War II and the role of Catholics in 20th-century U.S. foreign relations.
"Very few men, clergy or lay, have shaped the American Catholic
experience of the last century more powerfully than Notre Dame’s
Theodore Hesburgh. Priest, religious, educator, visionary, builder,
emissary, celebrity – he inhabited all these roles with exceptional
passion, skill, and commensurate ambition. The author captures the
complicated genius, and the equally complex times, of Hesburgh the
man with exactly the right balance of admiring and critical eye.
This is a deep, rich, superbly engaging biography of a force of
nature on the post-conciliar American Catholic scene."—Charles J.
Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia
"Fr. Wilson Miscamble is uniquely qualified to tell the story of
the legendary Fr. Hesburgh. Balanced, thorough, and gracefully
written, this remarkable biography will be of interest to anyone
who wants more fully to understand American Catholicism in the
twentieth century."—Robert Barron, Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles
and author of To Light a Fire on the Earth
"An incisive portrait of Theodore Hesburgh as the influential
embodiment of one way of being Catholic and American in the last
half of the twentieth century."—George Weigel, author of The
End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II - The Victory of
Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy
"In this ground-breaking, clear eyed biography of Father Theodore
Hesburgh, we finally have the man in full. With charity and
historical candor, Father Wilson Miscamble takes readers inside the
glories and contradictions of this renowned man of faith—caught
between the world and Notre Dame. Through personal interviews with
Hesburgh and careful reportage, Miscamble reveals the Hesbergh
legacy from the inside, fearlessly exposing unexplored corners of
Fr. Ted’s story that hold important lessons for anyone who cares
about education, faith, and The University of Notre Dame."—Raymond
Arroyo, New York Times Bestselling Author, Fox News Contributor,
EWTN News Managing Editor
"Fr. Hesburgh was the most influential and remarkable man I have
ever met. Reading American Priest helped me understand him better,
both his struggles and his many accomplishments."—Coach Lou
Holtz
"With the scholarly acumen of an accomplished historian and the
personal commitment of a Holy Cross priest, Miscamble has crafted
an important, critical re-telling of the life and work of Father
Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C. This is not hagiography, nor historical
biography in the conventional sense. This is an extended
conversation, at times a candid debate, concerning what both author
and subject care about most: Notre Dame, Holy Cross, national and
international politics, and how Catholic higher education can best
fulfill its mission of serving the church and the world and thus
giving glory to God."—Michael J. Baxter, Ph.D., Director of
Catholic Studies at Regis University
“Ambitious . . . [Reverend] Miscamble skillfully guides us through
the jungle of campus politics.” —The Imaginative Conservative
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