Alexander Hamilton and Catholic Church

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton was arguably the most important figure in American history who never attained the presidency, but he had a far more lasting impact than many who did. An illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, Alexander Hamilton rose with stunning speed to become George Washington's aide-de-camp, a battlefield hero, a member of the Constitutional Convention, the leading author of The Federalist Papers, and head of the Federalist party.
As the first treasury secretary, he forged America's tax and budget systems, customs service, coast guard, and central bank. Ron Chernow offers the whole sweep of Alexander Hamilton's turbulent life: his exotic, brutal upbringing; his brilliant military, legal, and financial exploits; his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, and Monroe; his shocking illicit romances; his enlightened abolitionism; and his famous death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July 1804.
Throughout, Ron Chernow blends Alexander Hamilton's public and private selves to present a fully rounded portrait of this handsome, witty, controversial genius and his poignant relations with his wife, Eliza, and their eight children. Alexander Hamilton's countless exploits never cramped his prolific literary labors. Chernow brings to light nearly fifty previously undiscovered essays as he explores Hamilton's fiery journalism, his youthful poetry, his magisterial state papers, and his revealing missives to colleagues and friends. Moreover, he conjures up portraits of Alexander Hamilton's celebrated peers, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Burr with all their shortcomings as well as their oft-sung triumphs.
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
ISBN: 0143034758

Catholic Church: A Short History

In this extraordinary book, the controversial and profoundly influential Hans Küng chronicles the Roman Catholic Church's role as a world power throughout history. Along the way, he examines the great schisms - between East and West, and Catholic and Protestant - as well as the evolving role of the papacy, the stories of the great reforming popes, and the expansion of a global church infrastructure.
The book concludes with a searching assessment of how the Catholic faith will confront the immense challenges posed in the new millennium by those seeking reform of traditional strictures.
Hans Küng obtained a doctorate in theology from the Sorbonne in 1957. In 1962 he was named a theological consultant for the Second Vatican Council by Pope John XXIII, and he played a major role in the writing of the documents of Vatican II, which radically modernized key areas of Catholic teaching. The author of many books, Hans Küng lives and teaches in Tübingen, Germany.
The Catholic Church: A Short History by Hans Küng
ISBN: 0812967623

Land Without Castles

A Land Without Castles explores the shifting history of European attitudes towards America, utilizing British and French writing from the late 18th century to the middle of the 19th century. Thomas Murphy studies a variety of literary, philosophical and political writing by Europeans in this era. The book covers four stages in the development of European attitudes: traditional theories and their modification in the 18th and 19th centuries; the influence of early American diplomacy on European attitudes; the cultural iconography of the French Revolution and England during this period; and the genre of the travel journal. The book aims to illuminate the readers understanding of the role these texts, and others, about the New World played in the formation of significant social and political developments in modern European history.
A Land Without Castles: The Changing Image of America in Europe, 1780-1830 by Thomas K. Murphy
Lexington Books, ISBN: 0739102206, 2001

Prayers and Devotions

Here is a treasury of selected passages from the writings and addresses of perhaps the most forceful, charismatic leader of the Catholic Church the world has ever known. This book is, as its editor, Bishop Peter Canisius Johannes van Lierde, suggests, "a harvest from the mind and heart of Pope Wojtyla." And so you will spend a few moments with the Pope each day of the liturgical year through these pages of his reflections.
This devotional was prepared to offer the modern reader, engaged with various daily tasks, the opportunity to know and to enter into the heart and mind of Pope John Paul II. His concerns as expressed in these passages include such topics as "Sharing with Others," "To Be in Peace," "Consumer Society" ("Man is created for happiness. Yes! But man's happiness is not identified with enjoyment! In such enjoyment the consumer-oriented man loses the full dimension of his humanity"), "The Great Divine Trial," about the meaning of his near-assassination, "The Christian Family in the Modern World," and "Family Prayer."
Through these pages of calm reflection each day, all will find a moment of peaceful repose from the occupations of life.
Prayers and Devotions: 365 Daily Meditations by Pope John Paul II
ISBN: 0140247254