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Warren Carroll (1932–2011)

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The Founding of Christendom (1985) 291 Exemplare
The Building of Christendom (1987) 194 Exemplare
The Glory of Christendom (1993) 178 Exemplare
The Cleaving of Christendom (1994) 168 Exemplare
The Last Crusade (1996) 101 Exemplare
The Guillotine & The Cross (1986) 91 Exemplare
1917: Red Banners White Mantle (1981) 87 Exemplare
The Crisis of Christendom (2013) 56 Exemplare
Reasons for Hope (1982) 26 Exemplare

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Carroll, Warren
Rechtmäßiger Name
Carroll, Warren HASTY
Andere Namen
CARROLL, Warren H.
CARROLL, Warren HASTY
CARROLL HASTY, Warren
Carroll, Warren
Geburtstag
1932-03-24
Todestag
2011-07-17
Begräbnisort
Christendom College, Front Royal, Virginia, USA
Geschlecht
male
Nationalität
USA
Land (für Karte)
United States of America
Geburtsort
Maine, USA
Sterbeort
Front Royal, Virginia, USA
Todesursache
Effects of numerous strokes
Wohnorte
Manassas, Virginia, USA
Ausbildung
Bates College (BA|History)
Columbia University (MA, Ph.D)
Berufe
President of Christendom College (1977-1985)
Central Intelligence Agency (Communist Propaganda Analyst)
author
historian
Beziehungen
Carroll, Herbert Allen (father)
Carroll, Gladys Hasty (mother)
Carroll, Anne W. (wife)
Watson, Sarah (sister)
Organisationen
Christendom College
Bates College
Columbia University
Central Intelligence Agency (Communist Propaganda Analyst)
Triumph Magazine
Seton School (Zeige alle 7)
Catholic Social Science Review
Preise und Auszeichnungen
Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Christendom College
Pro Deo et Patria Award for Distinguished Service to God and Country from Christendom College
Queen Isabel Catholic Vision of History Award from Christendom College
Pius XI Award in History from The Society of Catholic Social Scientists
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The son of Herbert Allen Carroll and regional writer Gladys Hasty Carroll, Warren Hasty Carroll was born on March 24, 1932 in Maine. He received his B.A. in history from Bates College in 1953 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. His younger sister Sarah Watson, who died one month after Warren in 2011, and both of their parents were Bates College graduates.

He served at one time in the CIA's anti-communism division as a Communist propaganda analyst, a job that would later prove most beneficial when writing his comprehensive study of international Communism, Seventy Years of the Communist Revolution (updated and re-released as The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution). During 1967-1972 he served on the staff of California State Senator, later U.S. Congressman, John G. Schmitz.

A year after his marriage to Anne Westhoff, Carroll converted from Deism to Catholicism in 1968 and began working for the Catholic magazine Triumph. In 1977 he founded Christendom College with the help of other Catholic laymen, in particular, William H. Marshner, Jeffrey A. Mirus, Raymund P. O'Herron, and Kristin M. Burns. He served as the first president of the college (located in Front Royal, Virginia) until 1985, as well as the chairman of the History Department until his retirement in 2002. At the time of his death, Carroll lived in Manassas, Virginia with his wife Anne, the founder of Seton School (Manassas, Virginia) and Seton Home Study School, as well as the author of Christ the King, Lord of History, as well as Christ in the Americas.

Before his death, he returned to Christendom College each month during the school year to deliver public lectures on select historical topics, ranging from the history of the country of Malta, the Mongol leader Genghis Khan, the French Revolution, and topics from the 20th century, with lectures on Emperor Karl of Austria and the Russian Revolution in 1917. These public lectures are available for free download through iTunes. Carroll remained a member of the Board of Directors and played an active role in helping to guide the college through the years. Carroll died on July 17, 2011 (at the age of 79), after a number of years of dealing with the effects of numerous strokes, and was buried on July 26, 2011, in a grave overlooking the Shenandoah River, behind the college's Regina Coeli Hall, where he spent so much of his time while working at Christendom. On September 16, 2012, Carroll's Celtic cross headstone (inscribed with "Truth exists. The Incarnation happened.") was blessed by college chaplain Fr. Donald Planty.

Carroll has received numerous awards throughout his academic career. Christendom College, the school he founded, awarded him an honorary doctorate in humane letters in 1999, its Pro Deo et Patria Award for Distinguished Service to God and Country in 2007, and its inaugural Queen Isabel Catholic Vision of History Award in 2007. The Society of Catholic Social Scientists, an organization of which he was a board member, named him its inaugural recipient of the Pius XI Award in history in 1995.

He had published articles through the Society's periodical, the Catholic Social Science Review. Carroll is also known for his major work, the multi-volume "History of Christendom". At the time of his death, only five volumes had been published; Anne Carroll helped complete the sixth volume, published in the summer of 2013. Together, the series presents a narrative account of Western Civilization and Catholic history from antiquity (about 2000 BC) through the year 2010.

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This series is the only comprehensive narration of Western history written from the orthodox Catholic perspective still in print. How would a historical narrative read if the author began with these first principles: Truth exists; the Incarnation happened? This series is essential reading for those who consider the West worth defending.
 
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StFrancisofAssisi | 1 weitere Rezension | Mar 12, 2020 |
comprehensive narration of Western history written from an orthodox Catholic perspective. How would a historical narrative read if the author began with the first principles that truth exists and the Incarnation happened? This series is essential reading for those who consider the West worth defending.
 
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StFrancisofAssisi | 1 weitere Rezension | Mar 12, 2020 |
I admit I bought this out of perverse curiosity more than anything: how could Carroll possibly whitewash that the Spanish Nationalists accepted aid from the Nazis? His argument here was simpler and more convincing than I thought possible: Where else were they going to get it? (And the Soviets had not just backed the Republicans, they had turned them into a proxy -- some sort of aid for the Nationalist side was essential.)

I also hadn't known about the indifferent-to-bad relations between the Carlists -- the Catholic faction of the war, anti-centralization and of a piece with the other 'political Catholic' factions of the interwar period, and the one Carroll is most on the side of -- and the Nationalists proper; if all you know of the Spanish Civil War is Hemingway and/or pro-Republican historians, this would be a good thing to read, just to learn the argument for the other side (and that, even though they managed to establish centralized control, neither they nor Franco's subsequent regime were quite as Fascist, or as fascist, as you probably imagine).… (mehr)
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ex_ottoyuhr | Apr 4, 2009 |
Carroll's style is to turn everything into an epic; this is a period of history for which it is admirably suited. To say that the Reformation era was eventful and colorful, and that it had a number of significant figures, is to say that a Concorde travels faster than a snail suffering from heat exhaustion. This is well worth reading; the only criticisms I can think of are that it sort of includes the whole text of _Our Lady of Guadeloupe and the Conquest of Darkness_ (although I'm hard-pressed to say how else he could have covered the conquest of the Mexica), and that the second edition removed the text inserted by the Melissa worm ('Twenty-two points, plus triple-word-score, plus fifty points for using all my letters. Game's over. I'm outta here') in the middle of the assassination of Albrecht von Wallenstein -- a moment of such high rhetorical intensity that the word processor declaring it was going home for the day was thoroughly apt.

Still, it's thoroughly recommended. Personally, I had the interesting experience of learning about the Reformation era through Fernand Braudel, then other contemporary historians, then Carroll, and thereby missing the Protestant-hagiography version; but if you've encountered that version (the evil Inquisition, the evil Jesuits, the evil Duke of Alba, etc.), this will fill you in on what the world of the Catholic Reformation looks like from the inside.

(Note that modern secular historians favor the term 'Catholic Reformation' over 'Counter-Reformation' for the internal reforms of the Catholic Church in this era, especially after the Council of Trent; the point is that this was a reform that was going to have happened whether there was a Protestant Reformation or not -- and which was already beginning, especially in Spain, before Martin Luther. Not surprisingly, Carroll follows their lead.)
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