As Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy geared up for the post-convention campaign in August 1960, twenty-five clerics quietly assembled in the Alps to draw up a plan of action for the presidential race. Anti-Catholic zealots had long planted images of such clerical cabals in the public mind, suggesting Catholic politicians’ susceptibility to religious directives transmitted fro (...)
August 14, 2009
Books
Profiles in Bigotry
The Making of a Catholic President Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960Shaun Casey Oxford University Press, $27.95, 272 pp.
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