| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

American Catholics and the Mexican Revolution, 1924–1936. By Matthew A. Redinger. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. xii, 260 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-268-04022-2. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 0-268-04023-0 .)

Scholarly works on international topics can provide revealing new perspectives on domestic institutions in United States history. Matthew A. Redinger's well-written and thoroughly researched book does just that by exploring the efforts of Catholics—both clergy and lay leaders— in the United States to defend Catholics in Mexico from the extensive, and at times harsh, campaign of regulation and restriction by the Mexican government. Historians have examined in depth Mexico's internal struggles that pitted the Catholic faithful against a government that insisted that its anticlerical campaign was part of a program of revolutionary uplift for the masses. Redinger adds to that history with a much-needed look at the efforts of U.S. Catholics to aid their coreligionists south of the border. Specialists will appreciate the biographical detail on several outspoken Catholics such as Wilfred Parsons, William F. Montavon, Michael Kenny, and Francis Kelley whose writings have been so frequently cited by historians over the last half century.

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