Soul of a Nation - by Bernard J Coughlin (Hardcover)

About the Book

The Soul of a Nation is a series of essays on American society's culture, morality, law, education, and faith: subjects that confront our society and will be of interest to citizens and scholars who have studied its political drift in recent years.

Book Synopsis

The Soul of a Nation is a series of essays on American society's culture, morality, law, education, and faith: subjects that confront our society and will be of interest to citizens and scholars who have studied its political drift in recent years.

Review Quotes

[This] is a book filled with wisdom -- and hope; a book not only for scholars and students, but for citizens who want to understand how our deeply wounded culture fell into the condition it is in and how we can . . . restore intellectual and moral standards.


Fr. Coughlin has diagnosed with acuity and courageous honesty the ideas and movements that have adversely affected our culture and our universities over half a century. His wise observations should be heeded by everyone concerned with the authentic renewal of [our] culture.


If . . . a war rages for possession of the mind and heart of our culture, I want Fr. Coughlin regularly stationed, with binoculars, in whatever observation post looms above the action and distraction below. . . . The Soul of a Nation is a gift to the nation we [will] all love.


The essays particularly explain how American society has shifted culturally and politically since World War II...It would inform and challenge college aged students who are grappling with philosophical, spiritual, political, and ethical questions for the first time.

This is a book that reveals the best of what a lifetime of prayer and reading can grant. [This] book . . . shows what a life dedicated to education can, and should, produce.

About the Author

Bernard J. Coughlin, SJ, was dean of the Graduate School of Social Service at St. Louis University for ten years and president of Gonzaga University for twenty-two years. He is Gonzaga University's first chancellor.