Steven J. Brady (Washington DC George Washington University)

Less Than Victory

American Catholics and the Vietnam War

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the impact of the Vietnam War on the American Catholic community, and the impact of the nation's largest religious group upon its most controversial war. It will interest students, scholars, and general readers interested in the Vietnam War, American religious history, and the Cold War.

Produktdetails

• Military, War, and Society in Modern American History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 150mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9781009627078
• ISBN-10: 1009627074
• Artikelnr.: 74361661

Autorenporträt

Steven J. Brady is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs at The George Washington University. He is the author of Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865 (2022) and Eisenhower and Adenauer: Alliance Maintenance under Pressure (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'evidence of loyalty'
1. 'I am a Roman Catholic' 1950-1959
2. 'We have a Catholic president, too' 1960-1963
3. 'The right moral position' January, 1964-June, 1965
4. 'It must be nice to be that sure' July, 1965-December, 1966
5. 'We can and must debate' January 1967-April 1968
6. 'Wearing a little thin' May 1968-March 1970
7. 'Outweighed by the destruction': April 1970-December 1971
8. 'It was not that kind of war' January 1972-February 1973
Epilogue: 'we speak as moral teachers'.