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Events in the 1920's presented a formidable challenge to Catholics on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. . . In the United States, Catholic individuals and institutions searched for ways to influence foreign policy on behalf of their beleaguered coreligionists while simultaneously maintaining their hard-won bona fides as patriotic Americans in the eyes of the broader population. This able monograph by Matthew A. Redinger. . . explor[es] the complex relationships that formed the interface between public opinion and public policy in this case. . . the reader will. . . find much in these pages to stimulate thought on the author's primary target, the evolution of United States Catholic political voices. This in-depth study details the efforts of Catholic Church leaders, activists, and laypeople to pressure the federal government to protect the rights of Mexican Catholic coreligionists living under the anticlerical Mexican revolutionary constitution of 1917. --Choice This book provides a detailed account of the various methods by which the American Catholic hierarchy, clergy, and laity attempted to influence official U.S. policy toward the Mexican government's anticlericalism in the years following the Revolution of 1910-20. Redinger skillfully analyzes the interplay among different institutional levels within the far-from-monolithic Church of this period. --The Catholic Historical Review

Events in the 1920's presented a formidable challenge to Catholics on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. . . In the United States, Catholic individuals and institutions searched for ways to influence foreign policy on behalf of their beleaguered coreligionists while simultaneously maintaining their hard-won bona fides as patriotic Americans in the eyes of the broader population. This able monograph by Matthew A. Redinger. . . explor[es] the complex relationships that formed the interface between public opinion and public policy in this case. . . the reader will. . . find much in these pages to stimulate thought on the author's primary target, the evolution of United States Catholic political voices. This in-depth study details the efforts of Catholic Church leaders, activists, and laypeople to pressure the federal government to protect the rights of Mexican Catholic coreligionists living under the anticlerical Mexican revolutionary constitution of 1917. --Choice This book provides a detailed account of the various methods by which the American Catholic hierarchy, clergy, and laity attempted to influence official U.S. policy toward the Mexican government's anticlericalism in the years following the Revolution of 1910-20. Redinger skillfully analyzes the interplay among different institutional levels within the far-from-monolithic Church of this period. --The Catholic Historical Review Matthew Redinger's fine study is remarkable in that it will appeal not only to readers of American diplomatic history and Mexican-United States relations, but also to those who wish to have a richer understanding of the history of the Catholic Church. With its focus on the importance of private interest groups in U.S. foreign policy, it is especially relevant to our own times. --Robert R. Swartout, Jr. Carroll College Matthew Redinger makes a significant contribution to our understanding of U.S.-Mexican relations from 1924 to 1936. This is a book that will be important reading for scholars and students. --William Beezley University of Arizona

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Matthew A. Redinger is professor of history at Montana State University, Billings.

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