The Pope's Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI's Campaign to Stop Hitler

图书标准信息

• 作者 Peter Eisner 著
• 出版社 HarperCollins US
• 出版时间 2013-02
• ISBN 9780062049148
• 定价 261.50元
• 装帧 精装
• 开本 其他
• 纸张 其他
• 页数 304页
• 正文语种 英语

【内容简介】

InJune1938,JohnLaFarge,anunassumingAmericanJesuitpriestandscholar,wassummonedtoaprivateaudiencewithPopePiusXI.InspiredbyLaFarge'sbook,"InterracialJustice",whicharguedthat"racialismandnationalismwerefundamentallythesame,"thepopeenlistedthepriesttopenapapalencyclical-adeclarationoftheCatholicChurch'sofficialview-condemningNazismandanti-Semitism.Aprofoundlymoralanddevoutman,PiusXIhopedthatthisofficialdecree,thehighestpublicstatementexpressedbytheHolySee,wouldraisepublicoppositiontotheThirdReichandcompelworldleaderstochallengeAdolfHitlerandhisalliesbeforeitwastoolate.Ashockingtaleofintrigueandsuspense,illustratedwithsixteenpagesofphotos,"ThePope'sLastCrusade"illuminatesthisreligiousleader'sdaringyetlittleknowncampaigntofightHitler,aspiritualandpoliticalbattlethatwouldbederailedbyPius'XIsdeathjustafewmonthslater.PeterEisnerrevealshowPiusXIintendedtounequivocallyrejectNazisminoneofthemostunprecedentedandprogressivepronouncementseverissuedbytheVatican,andhowagroupofconservativechurchmeneagertoappeaseHitler,includinghissuccessor,CardinalPacelli,PopePiusXII,plottedtopreventit.Forseventyyears,onlypartsofthisstoryhavebeenknown.Eisneroffersanewinterpretationofthishistoriceventandthepowerfulfiguresatitscenterinanessentialworkthatprovidesthoughtfulinsightandraisescontroversialquestionsimpactingourowntime.

【作者简介】

PeterEisnerisaveteranauthor,historian,andjournalist.HeservedasforeigneditoratNewsdayandasdeputyforeigneditorandcorrespondentfortheWashingtonPost.Hispreviousbook,TheFreedomLine,receivedthenationalChristophersAwardin2005.HelivesinBethesda,Maryland.