Billy Graham sought to make the entire population of America his congregation.
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Catholic Book Club Archives
From 1928 to 2003, the Catholic Book Club worked as a subscription service where America partnered with publishers to mail books to CBC readers. A (more or less) comprehensive list of 75 years worth of selections can be found here.
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An ‘America’ reading list: 150 short essays on 270 books
Reading suggestions from scholars—some long, some short…
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Saints Among Us
Robert Bartlett’s book will also be welcome to those who have experienced something of the power of the cult of the saints in their own time and place.
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Robert Silvers and the minds behind the New York Review of Books
The nature of reading is private, but part of the thrill of reading a magazine is the knowledge that others are reading the same material at roughly the same time.
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A Boy Grows in Brooklyn
It is the 1941 baseball season and Joe DiMaggio is not content Fans idolize him He enjoys a record-breaking hitting streak His wife gives birth to a son Yet DiMaggio is moody and saturnine besieged by guilt that he is not the hero his fans expect him to be…
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Man of Contradictions
I first discovered Mario Vargas Llosa in 1990 when I was in Peru to see a friend climb Machu Picchu and write an article That was the time when Vargas Llosa the novelist was running for president of Peru The guerilla movement Shining Path was terrorizing the countryside and the economy was fal
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Novak’s Travels
Michael Novak’s autobiography is another remarkable American success story.
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A Legend Unraveled
Cesar Chavez is widely considered a great American hero. But ‘From the Jaws of Victory’ by Matt Garcia explores some of the activist’s flaws not often acknowledged by those who know only the legend.