Bill Cork mentions H. W. Crocker III.
I really did give it the old college try. My wife bought Mr. Crocker's book Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church: A 2,000-Year History, and it sounded interesting: a modern popular condensation of Church history. The book has some unusual blurbs on the back, including Sean Hannity's cryptic reference to the old tale of Irish-American mythology The Quiet Man.
Mr. Crocker isn't an historian. I'm not sure just what his specialty is, but it isn't history. The book focuses on the development of the Church as a social institution, with little attention paid to its inner being and meaning and mode of life; and his open contempt of the Eastern churches and all things not northern European grated on me. When I found the Orthodox episcopacy described as "lickspittle bishops", in a book purporting to be history, I closed it for good.
I even rented The Quiet Man, somehow connected in Mr. Hannity's mind with Mr Crocker's book, hoping to gain some insight into the book or its approach to history or something. Nada. It's a lousy movie, and Triumph is lousy history.
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I think the Quiet Man falls more into the ethnic chick flick category. (It's not a favorite of mine either. And if you want to see John Wayne at his best, rent True Grit.)
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