His Holiness (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Carl Bernstein
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1920-1996
- Setting: Poland, Vatican City, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Latin America
- Principal Characters: Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), Stefan Wyszynski, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Lech Walesa, Ronald Reagan, William Casey
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Religion, Catholics or Catholic Church, Popes or papacy, Latin America or Latin Americans, Poland or Polish people, Soviet Union or Soviets, Vatican City
- Locales: United States, Soviet Union, Poland, Latin America, Vatican City
Best known for his exposés of the Watergate scandal (All the President’s Men, 1974; The Final Days, 1976), written in collaboration with fellow Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, which brought the presidency of Richard Nixon to an ignominious end in 1973, Carl Bernstein is nothing if not ambitious. In His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time, Bernstein shifts his attention to the world stage, to the life of Pope John Paul II—the man who played a pivotal role, along with Ronald Reagan, in bringing an end to the Cold War—by any...
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