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American Saint: The Life of Elizabeth Seton by Joan Barthel

beathebluebird's review against another edition

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informative inspiring tense slow-paced

3.0

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2.0

I was very interesting to learn more about Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, a saint I've been drawn to for a while now. The look at revolutionary America, and Catholicism in revolutionary America was very interesting. I was less enthused by Barthel's analysis linking her to the resistant spirit in modern day nuns etc. I'll be the first to say I honestly don't know much about the subject, but it felt a little forced. And as someone with a little training in the history field I am cautious of drawing sweeping generalizations of "look same struggle/issue" and dropping it in the laps of those 200+ years before us, in a wholly different economic/cultural/what have you context. But that's just me.
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