The New York Times Bestseller is at last available in a NOOKbook digital format, in its 35th Anniversary Edition featuring a new Foreword by Justice Samuel Alito. (Only the modern print and ebook versions of this book from Quid Pro Books have the new presentation and Justice Alito's introduction, even if this description appears on others' product pages.)
This book is universally considered to be an unusual, fascinating, and well-written observation of the life of a man who was first a war hero and Medal of honor winner from the Korean War, then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, thirdly a monk, and finally elected Pope: Pope Francis. His exciting life is described by three men who 'knew him well.' The first narrator is a Marine, telling of their time together in Korea. A constitutional scholar and Supreme Court Justice appalled at the new Chief Justice, narrates the second phase. The third is a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church; fat, kind but distracted. The Marine cares for him the most, the Supreme Court Justice condescends and despises him, and the Cardinal is much more interested in food than his subject. But Declan Walsh was a man who earned the Medal of Honor while ordering the death of friends, ruled pragmatically and energetically on the Court but lost his way to distraction and neglect, and yet became a miraculous healer, assassinated for challenging the powers that rule the secular world.
New ebook edition features proper formatting, active Contents, and linked notes and URLs in Justice Alito's extensive and substantive Foreword.
