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Faith and fraternalism : the history of the Knights of Columbus, 1882-1982
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A history of the Knights of Columbus on the celebration of its one-hundredth anniversary including information on its activities around the world, the establishment of a fraternal insurance company...
A history of the Knights of Columbus on the celebration of its one-hundredth anniversary including information on its activities around the world, the establishment of a fraternal insurance company, its support of its members during hardships of world wars and depressions, and its promotion of educational activities for its members.
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- Creator
- Christopher J. Kauffman
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- First edition
- Cambridge : Harper & Row, [1982]
- ©1982
- Physical Details
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- xv, 512 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780060149406, 006014940X
- OCLC
- ocm07597544
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Origins in New Haven -- Columbianism, anti-Catholicism, and Americanism -- The Catholic anti-defamation projects -- Historical revisionism and the Ku Klux Klan -- The Knights' crusade in Mexico -- The impact of the Great Depression -- John E. Swift and the cold war years -- Luke E. Hart and the confrontation with modernity -- John W. McDevitt and the Preservation of Catholic Faternalism -- Virgil C. Dechant and the prologue to the second century