America's Bishop: The Life and Times of Fulton J. Sheen
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ISBN: 1893554252 / Publisher: Encounter Books, October 2001
Chronicles the life and career of the bishop who gained prominence during the 1950s with his television program to his death in 1979.
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Among Fulton J. Sheen's thousands of converts were celebrities such as Clare Booth Luce and Henry Ford II, and former communists Louis Budenz and Elizabeth Bentley. Reeves discusses these conversions and Sheen's close friendship with J. Edgar Hoover, and details for the first time the struggle between Sheen and his chief rival, Francis Cardinal Spellman, a battle of ecclesiastical titans that led all the way to the Pope and to Sheen's final humiliation and exile.
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