John Cornwell is best known for his controversial Hitler’s Pope (1999). As I prepared to review his assessment of John Paul II’s long papacy, my eye was caught by the back cover, which reported some evaluations of that earlier book. Saul Friedlander stated in the Los Angeles Times, “As Cornwell brilliantly demonstrates, Pius XII brought forth the authoritarianism a (...)
March 25, 2005
Books
The Pontiff in Winter
The Pontiff in WinterTriumph and Conflict in the Reign of John Paul IIJohn CornwellDoubleday, $24.95, 336 pp.
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