"Promote then as an object of primary importance,
institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge." George Washington l
Farewell Address
l September 19, 1796
BOOK : MAN OF THE CENTURY The
Life and Times of Pope John Paul II
By Jonathan Kwitny
Henry Holt and Company, Inc.
115 West 18th Street
New York, N.Y. 10011
To read
Man of the Century
is to enter the
life of one of
the
world's most embattled and misunderstood visionaries, a leader
whose nonviolent mass movement has changed history. This book
was written because, after an extensive journalistic career
covering the Cold War and its aftermath, the author concluded
that John Paul II - a peace-seeker as influential and powerful
as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. - played the most
significant role in the resolution of one of the century's great
stories : the fall of Soviet totalitarianism.
