The American Catholic Experience: A History from Colonial Times to the Present

By Jay P. Dolan

Book Overview

Catholicism has had a profound and lasting influence on the shape, the meaning, and the course of American history. Now, in the first book to reflect the new communal and social awakening which... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038515206X
• ISBN13: 9780385152068
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Sensitivity Resource

This is exceptional resource for all to learn the mindset of American Catholics. Too often we assume they are back in the Reformation times, and they don't consider themselves there at all. Thus, to approach them this book is an invaluable source. Well written, historically accurate, this is insight into American Catholic ethos at its best!