James Carroll
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

"A triumph, a tragic tale beautifully told... a welcome throwback to an age when history was a branch of literature. Charles R. Morris, ATLANTIC MONTHLY

with a subjet dat has In this "rare book that combines searing passion affected all of our lives" (CHICAGO TRIBUNE), the novelist and cultural critic James Carroll maps the profoundly troubling two thon data course of the Church's battle against Judaism and fees the creen has provoked in his own life as a Catholic: More than a chtenis this dark history is the central tragedy of Western ervilhanon reaching deep into our culture. A courageous and affecting difficult truths that will touch every reader, Constanti book for our times. 6

"A deeply felt work, a book that measures the sweep [his] experience as a man of the church. h Hoyd S

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

"A masterly history... fascinating brave. David Van Biemma,

"Remarkable... a book of a deeper sort. NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEN

Andrew mem

JAMES CARROLL is the author of nine noves and the memoir An American Requiem, which won the National Book Award. He wrote Constantine's Sword while on fellowships at Harvard University. He lives in Boston.