The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s

Named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times | Named an Essential Read by The New Yorker

This enthralling group portrait brings to life a moment when popular culture became the site of religious strife—strife that set the stage for some of the most salient political and cultural clashes of our day.

Circa 1980, tradition and authority are in the ascendant, both in Catholicism (via Pope John Paul II) and in American civic life (through the Moral Majority and the ...