Description
Title: Through a Glass Darkly
Condition: Used
Author(s): Thomas Melville
Topic(s): Biography & Autobiography, Latin America, Mystery & Detective, Central America, Personal Memoirs, History, Fiction
Format: Paperback
Year: 2005
Language: English
Details: Through a Glass Darkly tells the story of Ron Hennessey, an Iowa farmer who returned from the Korean War to discover that farming no longer held much allure. Hennessey joined a Catholic missionary society and after nine years of study was ordained a priest and sent to Guatemala. The book describes Hennessey’s conversion from being an unapologetic patriot from America’s heartland to a staunch opponent of Ronald Reagan’s policies in Central America – policies that occasionally threatened Hennessey’s life. Hennessey’s story has a subtext: America’s ideals of freedom, democracy, and progress-with-justice have been violated abroad by one U.S. president after another.
Fast Tags: State-sponsored terrorism, United States, Guatemala, Guerrillas, International relations, Hennessey; Ronald William; 1929-1999
ISBN: 9781413469660
DDC: 972.81052
LCC: F1466.5.H36
OCLC_OWI: 20402263
