This recorded lecture, sponsored by the History Department, took place at Hillsdale College on April 15, 2021 to promote D. G. Hart's new book, American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War (Cornell University Press). It is a companion piece to an earlier episode with Daniel McCarthy on Roman Catholics and Christian nationalism in the U.S.
Below is a bibliography of works mentioned in the presentation:
Paul Blanshard, American Freedom and Catholic Power (Beacon, 1949)
William F. Buckley, Jr., God and Man at Yale (Regnery, 1951)
John Courtney Murray, We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition (Sheed & Ward, 1960)
Phyllis Schlafly, A Choice Not an Echo (Pere Marquette Press, 1964)
Richard John Neuhaus, The Catholic Moment: The Paradox of the Church in the Post-Modern World (Harper & Row, 1987)
Charles R. Morris, American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church (Times Books, 1997)
John T. McGreevy, Catholicism and American Freedom: A History (W. W. Norton, 2003)
Ross Douthat, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics (Free Press, 2012)
Thomas J. Sugrue, “The Catholic Encounter with the 1960s,” in Catholics in the American Century: Recasting Narratives of U.S. History, ed., R. Scott Apple and Kathleen Sprows Cummings (Cornell University Press, 2012)
Joseph Bottum, An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America (Image, 2014)
Sam Haselby, The Origins of American Religious Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 2016)
James Chappel, Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church(Harvard University Press, 2018)
Patrick Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed (Yale University Press, 2018)
D. G. Hart, American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2020)
Massimo Faggioli, Joe Biden and Catholicism in the United States (Bayard, 2021)
