| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2 | The History Cooperative

Patrick W. Carey. Orestes A. Brownson: American Religious Weathervane. (Library of Religious Biography.) Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans. 2004. Pp. xx, 428. $28.00.
The difficulty involved in writing a biography of Orestes A. Brownson is not limited to the man's enormous output and his often erratic intellectual trajectory. A prospective biographer of Brownson must be a true polymath, proficient in theology, philosophy, political theory, and American history, and it is for this reason that Patrick W. Carey's book is so impressive.	1
Scholarly studies of Brownson have at times focused on the man's religious thought to the exclusion of his political thought, or vice versa. Carey's biography, however, manages to discuss Brownson's religious and political evolution in a single, seamless narrative. Carey takes us through the various stages of Brownson's life, from his early exploration of various Christian denominations through his career as a Universalist preacher and a Unitarian pastor, and from there to his association with Transcendentalism. He became the best-known nineteenth-century American convert to Catholicism in 1844, and his influence has been compared to that of John Henry Newman, the renowned British convert from Anglicanism.	. . .

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