A Catholic Cold War: Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the Politics of American Anticommunism

Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Abbreviations ix Introduction xi 1 Edmund A. Walsh: Bostonian, Jesuit, Activist, and Educator 1 2 ‘‘What Think Ye of Russia?’’: Walsh and Catholic Anticommunism in the 1920s 23 3 ‘‘The Two Standards’’: Walsh and American Catholic Anticommunisms, 1929–41 62 4 ‘‘An American Geopolitics’’: Walsh and Wartime Catholic Anticommunism, 1941–45 107 5 ‘‘The Spiritual and Material Menace Threatening the Present Generation’’: Walsh and Catholic Anticommunism in the Cold War, 1946–56 134 Epilogue 169 Notes 173 Bibliography 237 Index 269 ...