The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe by David I. Kertzer

The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe

David I. Kertzer

512 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography history religion dark tense slow-paced
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The Pulitzer-winning author of The Pope and Mussolini, takes on a central, untold story of the Papacy, the revolution that stripped the Pope of political power and signaled the birth of modern Europe.The longest-reigning pope, Pope Pius IX, also o...

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