Georgetown's Second Founder - Fr. Giovanni Grassi's News on the Present Condition of the Republic of the United States of North America (Hardcover)

Observations on the new American republic by an early president of Georgetown University Father Giovanni Antonio Grassi was the ninth president of Georgetown University and pioneered its transition into a modern institution, earning him the moniker Georgetown's Second Founder. Originally published in Italian in 1818 and translated here into English for the first time, his News on the Present Condition of the Republic of the United States of North America records his rich observations of life in the young republic and the Catholic experience within it. When Grassi assumed his post as president in 1812, he found the university, known then as Georgetown College, to be in a "miserable state." He immediately set out to enlarge and improve the institution, increasing the number of non-Catholics in the school, adding to the library's holdings, and winning authority from Congress to confer degrees. Upon his return to Italy, Grassi published his News, which introduced Italians to the promise and contradictions of the American experiment in self-governance and offered perspectives on the social reality for Catholics in America. This book is a fascinating work for historians of Catholicism and of the Jesuits in particular.

General

Imprint:	Georgetown University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2021
Authors:	Giovanni Grassi
Translators:	Roberto Severino
Foreword by:	Robert Emmett Curran
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	152
ISBN-13:	978-1-64712-043-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Local history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Local history
LSN:	1-64712-043-8
Barcode:	9781647120436

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