Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Chapter One. Introduction 1
5. Chapter Two. A Political History 11
6. Chapter Three. Into the Modern Era 35
7. Chapter Four. The Bishops, Abortion, and a “New Majority” 54
8. Chapter Five. The Bishops and Electoral Politics: 1976 68
9. Chapter Six. The Bishops and Electoral Politics: 1980 82
10. Chapter Seven. The Bishops and Nuclear Weapons 92
11. Chapter Eight. The Bishops and Electoral Politics: 1984 108
12. Chapter Nine. Economics, 1988, and the Future 127
13. Notes 147
14. Bibliography 165
15. Index 173