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A rare firsthand account of the three popes who worked to modernize the Catholic Church—and to evangelize the modern world—from a renowned international lawyer, Harvard law professor, and former ambassador to the Vatican“Mary Ann Glendon’s book joyfully, and with humility, brings us inside her deft,... Read More about In the Courts of Three Popes: An American Lawyer and Diplomat in the Last Absolute Monarchy of the West

What is papal diplomacy and what role does it play on the larger geopolitical stage? Why does it matter what popes say to a global audience? "As John Tanyi points out, papal diplomacy has followed a trajectory all its own over the years.  In today’s globalized world, the Holy See stands out as ... Read More about The Cross and the Flag: Papal Diplomacy and John Paul II's Struggle Against the Tyranny of the Possible

As Mary Ann Glendon writes in this fascinating new book, the relationship between politics and the academy has been fraught with tension and regret-and the occasional brilliant success-since Plato himself. In The Forum and the Tower, Glendon examines thinkers who have collaborated with leaders, fro... Read More about Forum and the Tower: How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt

Unafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions, Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, under the auspices of the newly formed United Nations, to forge the world’s first international bill ... Read More about A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights