"Philip Gleason has produced a magisterial interpretation of
Catholic higher education in the twentieth century....[T]he most
reliable and convincing comprehensive history of Catholic higher
education. It is a must read for all involved in Catholic higher
education and for all those interested in the intellectual and
institutional history of religion and education in this
country."--U.S. Catholic Historian
"[A] very fine book."--Commonweal
"Contending With Modernity is...an important book....[A] thorough
and impressive piece of scholarship."--America
"Academics, their appetites whetted by a steady stream of brilliant
articles, eargerly awaited this history. They will not be
disappointed. Gleason knows the material, blends it into a dramatic
success story and provides some answers to the how and why
questions."--National Catholic Reporter
"A measured, balanced, meticulously researched, and authoritative
study of a subject as important as it is vast. Reading this book is
an almost unalloyed delight....The insights of Contending with
Modernity fully match both the complexity and importance of its
subject."--Books and Culture
"Philip Gleason has written a stimulating and important book that
makes a valuable contribution to understanding American Catholic
intellectual culture in the first half of the twentieth
century."--Catholic Historical Review
"Athough the evolution of Catholic higher education in the United
States ia an important and complex topic, historians, for the most
part, have accorded it meager attention. This beautifully written
book, based heavily on primary data, goes far to compensate for
past neglect. This is a superb book and it is highly
recommended."--The Journal of American History
"The story he tells is fascinating....It is a quite excellent book,
detailed in research, accomplished in execution, authoritative in
judgement, and one which will hardly be bettered."--Labor
History
"[A] superb history."--The Cresset
"Philip Gleason's history of American Catholic higher education in
the twentieth century is masterful....[T]he most important study of
the topic since Edward J. Power's History of Catholic Higher
Education in the United States (1958)."--American Historical
Review
"Professor Gleason has provided an erudite, searching, thoroughly
researched and elegantly written history of the evolution of on of
these traditions....[T]he definitive study on the subject and
likely to remain so for many years to come."--Studies in
Education
"In this massively researched and well-reasoned book, Philip
Gleason brings a lifetime of learning and experience to showing how
[second- and third- generation Catholic immigrants] managed [to
satisfy the demand for Catholic education], how Catholic education
and the Catholic intellectual revival of the interwar years
advanced hand in hand, and how, in the stormy 1960s, their
partnership foundered."--hurch History
"As this century and millennium draw to a close, we have reason to
thank Oxford University Press and Philip Gleason of Notre Dame for
offering us a critical insider's history of modern Catholic higher
education in the United States over the past hundred
years...[L]ikely to become a classic reference work."--The Journal
of Religion
"[Gleason's] dense, thorough interpretation should encourage a new
generation of scholars to examine not only the Catholic story but
also to blend it into a historical synthesis of American higher
education."--Historical Journal of Massachusetts
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