| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Edward Sorin. By Marvin R. O'Connell. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001. x, 737 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-268-02759-5.)

One need not be an alumnus of the University of Notre Dame to be curious about Edward Sorin. The founder of a university that he dubbed 'the center of Catholicism in the New World,' Sorin was also superior general of a worldwide religious congregation and a key figure in the Catholic Church of the nineteenth century. This hefty, 737-page biography explores Sorin's unusual life from his birth in post-Napoleonic France to his death in South Bend, Indiana, in 1893. Gracefully written by Marvin R. O'Connell, professor emeritus of history at Notre Dame and author of an earlier biography of John Ireland, the volume draws on archival research in the United States and Europe. One hesitates to describe any book as definitive, but this is as exhaustive a biography of Sorin as is likely to appear for a very long time. . . .

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