@article{1477691,
      recid = {1477691},
      author = {McNamara, Patrick J., },
      title = {A Catholic Cold War : Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the  Politics of American Anticommunism /},
      pages = {1 online resource (302 p.)},
      abstract = {This book is the first biography in 42 years of the priest  and educator whom historians have called "the most  important anticommunist in the country." Edmund A. Walsh,  as dean of Georgetown College and founder in 1919 of its  School of Foreign Service, is one of the most influential  Catholic figures of the 20th century. Soon after the birth  of the Bolshevik state, he directed the Papal Relief  Mission in the Soviet Union, starting a lifelong immersion  in Soviet and Communist affairs. He also established a  Jesuit college in Baghdad, and served as a consultant to  the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal. A pioneer in the new  science of geopolitics, Walsh became one of Truman's most  trusted advisers on Soviet strategy. He wrote four books,  dozens of articles, and gave thousands of speeches on the  moral and political threat of Soviet Communism in America.  Although he died in 1956, Walsh left an indelible imprint  on the ideology and practical politics of Cold War  Washington, moving easily outside the traditional  boundaries of American Catholic life and becoming, in the  words of one historian, "practically an institution by  himself." Few priests, indeed few Catholics, played so  large a role in shaping American foreign policy in the 20th  century.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1477691},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823290710},
}