Douglas J. Slawson is vice president for student services at National University in San Diego, California.
"Slawson certainly deserves a place on the research shelf in every
Catholic school since his work explains the reluctance of Pastors
and Bishops in the 40s, 50s, 60s and even the early 70s to accept
any governmental financial aid seeing in that a move toward federal
control of the schools." —Catholic Library World
"The meticulous and massive documentation (forty-nine pages of
endnotes) will make Slawson's study the definitive work on this
important but neglected aspect of twentieth-century American
Catholicism." —The Catholic Historical Review
"In this well-researched volume, Slawson covers an important period
in the debate over religion and public schools. Slawson details the
conflict over public education between American Catholics and
Protestants from the end of WWI to the election of Franklin D.
Roosevelt. In a clear and meticulous manner, the author sheds light
on a forgotten part of church-state history. Recommended."
—Choice
". . . The book is an exceptional historical work. Little was known
about these issues and the role of the NCWC in protecting the
Catholic educational system, while trying, best as could be done in
the situation, not to portray the Catholic Church as hostile to
public schools. The author left no stone unturned in his relentless
quest to report what was going forward, and how people and editors
were interpreting, and misinterpreting, what was happening."
—American Catholic Studies
“This is a solid legislative history of the fight over federal aid
to education from 1918 to 1932. The research is thorough and the
topic is important.” —John McGreevy, University of Notre Dame
“Slawson's book is most concerned with the Smith-Towner Act of 1918
and successor bills that, depending on one's perspective, promised
or threatened federal funding, centralization, and control of
education throughout the country.” —American Historical Review
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