The Pope's Last Crusade

图书信息

作者	Eisner
出版社	Peter
ISBN	9780062049162
出版时间	2013-03-19
字数	43.8万
分类	William Morrow,进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

A conspiracy within the Vatican to stop an outspoken Pope In 1938, Pope Pius XI was the world most prominent critic of Hitler and his rhetoric of ethnic purity. To make his voice heard, Pius called upon a relatively unknown American Jesuit whose writing about racism in America had caught the Pope attention. Pius enlisted John LaFarge to write a papal encyclical the Vatican strongest decree publicly condemning Hitler, Mussolini, and their murderous Nazi campaign against the Jews. At the same time conservative members of the Vatican innermost circle were working in secret to suppress the document. Chief among them was Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, whose appeasement of the Germans underlay a deep-running web of conspiracy. Pacelli, who would become Pope Pius XII, was joined by Wlodimir Ledóchowski, leader of the Jesuit order, to keep the finished encyclical from reaching the increasingly ill Pope. Peter Eisner, award-winning reporter and author of the critically acclaimed The Freedom Line , combines shocking new evidence (released only recently from Vatican archives) and eyewitness testimony to create a compelling journey into the heart of the Vatican and a little-known story of an American partnership with the head of the Catholic Church. A truly essential work, it brings staggering new light to one of the most critical junctures in modern history.

目录

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Prologue: A Settling of Accounts

One: Nostalgia Confronts Reality

Two: A “Crooked Cross”

Three: The Imposition of the Reich

Four: The Pope’s Battle Plan

Five: The Flying Cardinal

Six: A Democratic Response

Seven: In the Heat of the Summer

Eight: The Pope’s Discontent

Nine: Shame and Despair

Photo Section

Ten: A New Year and an End to Appeasement

Eleven: Will There Be Time?

Twelve: Change Overnight

Thirteen: The New Regime

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Excerpts From LaFarge’s Encyclical

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Also by Peter Eisner

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher