"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Historian James O'Toole's latest book is Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820 - 1920, which tells the remarkable story of the 19th-century mixed-race family that produced a president of Georgetown, a bishop of Portland, Maine, and a rector of the Boston cathedral. Read the review from the Chronicle of Higher Education, and see a page Holy Cross has devoted to Bishop James Augustine Healy, valedictorian of the college's first graduating class in 1849, and first African-American to become a Roman Catholic bishop.
O'Toole is a biographer of William Cardinal O'Connell, and writes in the latest Boston College Magazine on the man who set the style for America's bishops. His 1992 book on the life and legacy of the Boston cardinal received a noteworthy review from James Carroll in the Atlantic Monthly.
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