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Lädt ... An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us (1996)von James Carroll
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. He's a fine writer; a moving account of James Carroll's adventures as a priest opposing the Vietnam war, while his father, as a government official, was making decisions about war strategy for the defense department. The family scenes are vivid; and I learned much about what it was like to be a priest-in-training during those turbulent times. ( ) Father a general — He a priest — Vietnam War — Brother - Polio, terms with his father An American Requiem is the story of one man's coming of age. But more than that, it is a coming to terms with the conflicts that disrupted many families, inflicting personal wounds that were also social, political, and religious. This is the memoir of a former American priest whose father was one of the generals responsible for the war in Vietnam. Becoming a priest, initially, to satisfy his father's and mother's expectations, he became the sort of priest that was so opposite to what they had expected, involved in the anti-war movement and part of the general freeing up of that period of the church. This is a story about a spoiled kid who accepted what he was told, fulfilled his family expectations and gradually started to wake up politically, and in doing so, lost his father. I enjoyed this book immensely! The author is a few years older than me, but we share the same memories of our teenage years: the Kennedys, MLK, desegregation, and Vietnam. I felt the same anguish as I move from unquestioned belief in my country's military to the sad realization that we were on the wrong path. Carroll describes these feelings superbly, as he recounts his time studying for, and entering the priesthood and his subsequent return to a lay life. Oddly enough, I was studying at Boston University during the tie he was assigned as chaplain, but as I was a part-time evening student, our paths never crossed. I wish they had! keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Biography & Autobiography.
Religion & Spirituality.
Nonfiction.
HTML: An American Requiem is the story of one man's coming of age. But more than that, it is a coming to terms with the conflicts that disrupted many families, inflicting personal wounds that were also social, political, and religious. Carroll grew up in a Catholic family that seemed blessed. His father had abandoned his own dream of becoming a priest to rise through the ranks of Hoover's FBI and then become one of the most powerful men in the Pentagon, the founder of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Young Jim lived the privileged life of a general's son, dating the daughter of a vice president and meeting the pope, all in the shadow of nuclear war, waiting for the red telephone to ring in his parents' house. He worshiped his father until Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights movement, turmoil in the Catholic Church, and then Vietnam combined to outweigh the bond between father and son. These were issues on which they would never agree. Only after Carroll left the priesthood to become a writer and husband with children of his own did he come to understand fully the struggles his father had faced. In this work of nonfiction, the best-selling novelist draws on the skills he honed with nine much-admired novels to tell the story he was, literally, born to tell. An American Requiem is a benediction on his father's lief, his family's struggles, and the legacies of an entire generation. .Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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