Metropolitan Books. 320p $26
Bloomsbury. 272 p, $30.00
ISBN: 978-0802743879
Riverhead Books
320p $28
Orbis Press. 240p $25
America is a weekly Catholic journal of opinion that has appeared continuously since April 17, 1909. The founder was John J. Wynne, S.J. (1859-1948), who also conceived the idea of the Catholic Encyclopedia, the first volume of which appeared in 1907 under his direction. From 1892 Wynne edited a devotional Catholic monthly, The Messenger of the Sacred Heart.