St. Pope Gregory the Great is treated in three sections: first as an ascetic theologian and monk, then as a pastor and selector of pastors and finally as a Roman prefect.

Of the six jurisdictions that constituted the Society of Jesus in the United States in 1900, five of them owed their origin to Jesuit immigrants of the mid-to-late 19th century.

Catholics with their “sacramental imagination” might make sense of what this man meant to some of his contemporaries.

Candidates will have to combine American Amnesia’s policy prescriptions with a broader call to Americans’ better angels. Otherwise, Hacker and Pierson’s next book might well be titled American Dementia.

'The Boys in the Bunkhouse' is a gentle though ultimately damning exposé.

"We are more comfortable with Ezra Pound the madman, because we do not want to ponder Pound the monster."