A Catholic Cold War; Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the politics of American anticommunism.0823224597 A Catholic Cold War; Edmund A. Walsh Fr. Edmund Aloysius Walsh, S.J. (October 10, 1885 – October 31, 1956) was an American Jesuit Catholic priest, professor of geopolitics and founder of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, which he founded in 1919–six years before the U.S. , S.J., and the politics of American anticommunism. McNamara, Patrick. Fordham University Press The Fordham University Press is a publishing house, a division of Fordham University, that publishes primarily in the humanities and the social sciences. Fordham University Press was established in 1907 and is headquartered in the Canisius Hall building in the Rose Hill Campus of 2005 280 pages $45.00 Hardcover BX4705 Walsh was one of the most influential Catholics of the twentieth century. As dean of Georgetown College Not to be confused with Georgetown College, a separate and unaffiliated institution located in Georgetown, Kentucky. Bachelor of Science
, founder of its School of Foreign Service, consultant to the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal and mastery of the new science of geopolitics geopolitics, method of political analysis, popular in Central Europe during the first half of the 20th cent., that emphasized the role played by geography in international relations. made him one of Truman's most influential advisors on Soviet strategy. He was also firmly anti-communist, based in part on his experiences directing the Papal pa·pal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or issued by a pope: the papal succession; a papal bull. 2. Of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church. Relief Mission to the Soviet Union shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution. Walsh's death in 1956 did not diminish the influence of his ideas on the Cold War. McNamara makes significant use of primary materials hitherto unused, and carefully notes how some of those traditionally considered the "other" in America, namely Catholics, found another "other" even more marginalized. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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