Explores how four twentieth-century American Catholic authors, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy, and Dorothy Day, came to believe the best way to explore the quandries of religious faith was in writing.
Recounts the author's underground exploits in Nazi prison camps and slave labor mines with new materials now available with the lifting of security restrictions.
Examines the life and actions of former secretary of defense Robert McNamara, focusing on the Vietnam War years, and showing how his wartime decisions altered the lives of five individuals who are representative of everyone who was affected by the war.
