Dagger John: Archbishop John Hughes and the Making of Irish America

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The subject of John Loughery's biography Dagger John: Archbishop John Hughes and the Making of Irish America was the most powerful, dramatic, and controversial religious figure in 19th-century America.  Admired by Abraham Lincoln and Henry Clay, hated by Walt Whitman and Horace Greeley, Hughes was the architect of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the founder of Fordham University, and an untiring defender of the Irish against nativist attacks.  Loughery's talk will deal with this fascinating figure in American history and a painful period of turmoil and growth as the nation headed toward civil war.   

Historian, art critic, and biographer John Loughery is the author of six award-winning books, including Alias S.S. Van Dine (winner of an Edgar Award), John Sloan: Painter and Rebel (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography), The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives and Gay Identities, A Twentieth-Century History (winner of a Lambda Award), Dagger John: Archbishop of John Hughes and the Making of Irish America (winner of the Lehman Prize from the New York Academy of History), Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century, and most recently a memoir of his uncle's WW II experiences, An American at War: Surviving Bataan, Mukden, and the Trauma of Recovery.
 

6:00pm Reception, 6:30pm Lecture gratis.