Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America - Softcover

Fialka, John J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312325967 ISBN 13: 9780312325961

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2004

Synopsis

Nuns became the nation's first cadre of independent, professional women. Some nursed, some taught, and many created and managed new charitable organizations, including large hospitals and colleges. Sweeping in its scope and insight, Sisters reveals the sp

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Praise for Sisters

"Sisters's strength is Fialka's ability to put flesh and blood into the accounts of the lives and work of sisters and to show through these lives the immense contribution to American society."
---National Catholic Reporter

"Fialka tells [the nuns'] story passionately, analyzing their remarkable contributions to education, health care, social reform, and civil rights."
---San Francisco Chronicle

"Fialka is bent on recovering those thrilling days of yesteryear when flocks of sisters . . . pushed beyond the settled boundaries of nineteenth-century America to aid in the civilizing of a continent."
---Kenneth L. Woodward, The New York Times Book Review

"In a book as sweeping as its title, John J. Fialka lays out the major role of Catholic nuns in the building of our nation."
---Providence Journal

"[Sisters is a] well sourced and often sparkling narrative about legions of spirited and spiritual Catholic sisters."
---Washington Post

About the Author:

John J. Fialka is a reporter with the Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau. He lives in McLean Virginia.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0312325967
• ISBN 13: 9780312325961
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384