America's Bishop: The Life and Times of Fulton J. Sheen

by Thomas C. Reeves

Overview

Among Fulton J. Sheen's thousands of converts were celebrities such as Clare Booth Luce and Henry Ford II, and former communists Louis Budenz and Elizabeth Bentley. Reeves discusses these conversions and Sheen's close friendship with J. Edgar Hoover, and details for the first time the struggle between Sheen and his chief rival, Francis Cardinal Spellman, a battle of ecclesiastical titans that led all the way to the Pope and to Sheen's final humiliation and exile.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781893554610
Publisher:	Encounter Books
Publication date:	11/01/2002
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	479
Sales rank:	448,509
Product dimensions:	6.44(w) x 8.96(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1450L (what's this?)