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Dagger John : Archbishop John Hughes and the making of Irish America by John Loughery is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Dagger John : Archbishop John Hughes and the making of Irish America about?
Acclaimed biographer John Loughery tells the story of John Hughes, son of Ireland, friend of William Seward and James Buchanan, founder of St. John’s College (now Fordham University), builder of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, pioneer of parochial-school education, and American diplomat. As archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York in the 1840 and 1850s and the most famous Roman Catholic in America, Hughes defended Catholic institutions in a time of nativist bigotry and church burnings and worked tirelessly to help Irish Catholic immigrants find acceptance in their new homeland. His galvanizing and protecting work and pugnacious style earned him the epithet Dagger John. When the interests of his church and ethnic community were at stake, Hughes acted with purpose and clarity. In Dagger John , Loughery reveals Hughes’s life as it unfolded amid turbulent times for the religious and ethnic minority he represented. Hughes the public figure comes to the fore, illuminated by Loughery’s retelling of his interactions with, and responses to, every major figure of his era, including his critics (Walt Whitman, James Gordon Bennett, and Horace Greeley) and his admirers (Henry Cla
Who reads Dagger John : Archbishop John Hughes and the making of Irish America?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- John Loughery
- Publisher
- Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501707742
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Religion, Philosophy, History
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (87 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14