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Against a backdrop of war and anti-Catholic sentiment, one man loses his rights due to false accusations against him
Sommario
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Sylvester Andriano, a Catholic Attorney in San Francisco
2. Anti-Catholicism in Little Italy
3. Catholic Action, from Rome to San Francisco
4. Catholic Action Theory and Practice in San Francisco
5. Sylvester Andriano and Catholic Action in San Francisco
6. The Catholic Action Social Apostolate
7. The Catholic Action Educational and Moral Apostolates
8. Catholic Action and Communism
9. Catholic Action, European Crises, and San Francisco Politics
10. Andriano’s Ordeal: The Loyalty Hearings
11. Andriano’s Ordeal: Exclusion and Exile
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Info autore
William Issel is Professor of History Emeritus at San Francisco State University and Visiting Professor of History at Mills College. He is the author of Social Change in the United States 1945-1983, coauthor of San Francisco, 1865-1932: Politics, Power, and Urban Development, and co-editor and contributor to American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture.
Riassunto
Against a backdrop of war and anti-Catholic sentiment, one man loses his rights due to false accusations against him. This title recounts the civil right abuses suffered by Sylvester Andriano, an Italian American Catholic civil leader whose religious and political activism in San Francisco provoked an Anti-Catholic campaign against him.
