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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.2 | The History Cooperative

For Faith and Fortune: The Education of Catholic Immigrants in Detroit, 1805-1925. By JoEllen McNergney Vinyard. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xviii, 310 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 0-252-02405-2. Paper, $18.95, isbn 0-252-06707-X.)

The evolution of Catholic education has been one of the most ambitious social movements in United States history. Over the past two hundred years, Catholic schools have educated tens of millions of American citizens with no direct financial assistance from federal, state, or local governments. It is an achievement that has never been duplicated anywhere else in the world and yet it has largely escaped the notice of academic historians. 1

JoEllen McNergney Vinyard has rectified this oversight—at least for one American city. In For Faith and Fortune, Vinyard tells the story of the emergence of Catholic education in Detroit, a major industrial city that became home to hundreds of thousands of immigrant Catholics. And in this effort, she does a masterly job of putting the history of parochial education into the larger context of the history of the city itself. . . .

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