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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
The author liked switching events around and it was hard to follow sometimes. It was short. I was interested in the canonization of Elizabeth Seton, but that was only covered in the Epilogue with a few pages. I found this book to be well researched but dry.
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I was very interesting to learn more about Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, a saint I've been drawn to for a while now. The look at revolutionary America, and Catholicism in revolutionary America was very interesting. I was less enthused by Barthel's analysis linking her to the resistant spirit in modern day nuns etc. I'll be the first to say I honestly don't know much about the subject, but it felt a little forced. And as someone with a little training in the history field I am cautious of drawing sweeping generalizations of "look same struggle/issue" and dropping it in the laps of those 200+ years before us, in a wholly different economic/cultural/what have you context. But that's just me.