CSPAN3 History Bookshelf September 27, 2015
After he expressed pleased shock at the size of the thing i said Henry Kissinger took 1100 pages to describe three years. Surely you deserve 865 for 80 years. I thought what i might do tonight is pull out some of the themes from this book around the soul of john paul ii. It captures my intention 3. 5 years ago when i began this project. While the pope had been written about an enormous amount, at that time 18 years, much writing came at him from the outside as a great statesman, diplomat, historical figure who only incidentally happened to be a catholic christian, priest, bishop. That seems to...