| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2

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American Catholics and the Mexican Revolution, 1924–1936. By Matthew A. Redinger. (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. xii + 260 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00, cloth; $22.00, paper.)

American Catholics and the Mexican Revolution looks at the efforts of U. S. Catholics to stop government persecution of the Catholic Church in Revolutionary Mexico during its peak years from 1924 through 1936, when clerophobe Plutarco Elias Calles, first as president and then as "Jefe Maximo" (or strongman) of the Revolution, dominated the nation. American Catholics tried to end persecution directly, by helping to facilitate the modus vivendi agreement that ended the conflict's first round in 1929, but most of all, indirectly, by seeking to shape U. S. public opinion and government policy toward the Mexican government. The author uses their activities as a case study in the wider debate about the efficacy of "private interest groups' efforts to mold public policy to fit their own agendas" (pp. x).

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