An American Requiem (Magill’s Literary Annual 1997)
At a glance:
- Author: James Carroll
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1943 to the 1990’s
- Setting: Primarily the United States
- Principal Characters: James Carroll, General Joseph Carroll, Mary Carroll, J. Edgar Hoover, Cardinal Francis Spellman, Hans Küng, General Curtis D. LeMay, Allen Tate
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: Parents and children, Sex or sexuality, Vietnam War, Fathers, Catholics or Catholic Church, Espionage or spies, Priests, Religious life, Dissent or dissenters
- Locales: United States
James Carroll is known as the author of nine well-received novels. An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us, however, is a work of nonfiction in which the author lays bare the tragic story of his relationship with his distinguished father, General Joseph Carroll. Joseph Carroll held important positions in U.S. Intelligence throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s and therefore during much of the Vietnam conflict that did much to create and deepen the estrangement between father and son.
The course of the relationship between father and son is in...
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