William Issel: For Both Cross and Flag

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Against a backdrop of war and anti-Catholic sentiment, one man loses his rights because he is falsely accused<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781439900284&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1518_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>For Both Cross and Flag</h1> <H2>Catholic Action, Anti-Catholicism, and National Security Politics in World War II San Francisco</H2> <h3>William Issel</h3> <P>cloth 1-4399-0028-0 $35.00, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Not Yet Published Preorder</FONT> <BR> 216 pp 5.5x8.25 10 halftones </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"</i>For Both Cross and Flag<i> breaks interesting new ground. Issel, a leading specialist on the history of 20th century San Francisco, has done an exhaustive job of researching the life and career of Sylvester Andriano. He fills out the history of conservatism in the United States and the role of religion in local and national politics. Thoroughly researched and clearly written, this excellent historical work fits very nicely at the intersection of urban history, political history, and ethnic history. It also makes important moral points."</i> <br>&#151<b>Carl Abbott</b>, Portland State University<i></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>In this fascinating history set before and during World War II, William Issel recounts the civil rights abuses suffered by Sylvester Andriano, an Italian American Catholic whose religious and political activism in San Francisco provoked an Anti-Catholic campaign against him. A leading figure in the Catholic Action movement, Andriano was falsely accused in state and federal Un-American Activities Committee hearings of having Fascist sympathies. As his ordeal began, Andriano was subjected to a hostile investigation by the FBI, whose confidential informants were his political rivals. Ultimately, the U.S. Army ordered him to be relocated on the grounds that he was a security risk.</p> <p><i>For Both Cross and Flag</i> provides a dramatic account of what can happen when parties to urban political rivalries, rooted in religious and ideological differences, seize the opportunity provided by a wartime national security emergency to demonize their enemy as “a potentially dangerous person.”</p> <p>Issel presents a cast of characters that includes archbishops, radicals, the Kremlin, and J. Edgar Hoover, to examine the significant role faith-based political activism played in the political culture that violated Andriano's constitutional rights. Exploring the ramifications of this story, <i>For Both Cross and Flag</i> presents interesting implications for contemporary events and issues relating to urban politics, ethnic groups, and religion in a time of war.</p> <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><i>"Sylvester Adriano’s story needs to be told and Issel does a service to American history in writing </i>For Both Cross and Flag<i>. He deals with a neglected aspect of American politics in World War II, and makes a serious contribution to the study of anti-Catholicism in the (Western) United States. In the hysteria of our post-911 world, Issel’s book has a clear immediacy. </i>For Both Cross and Flag<i> fits in perfectly to discussions of religion, anti-Catholicism and secularization"</i> <br>&#151<b>Roy Domenico</b>, University of Scranton <BR> <P><p>  <font color="#3152A5">Also available in e-book</font></p></P><BR> <br> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/2034_au1.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>William Issel</b> is Professor of History Emeritus at San Francisco State University and Visiting Professor of History at Mills College. He is the author of <i>Social Change in the United States 1945-1983</i>, coauthor of <i>San Francisco, 1865-1932: Politics, Power, and Urban Development</i>, and co-editor and contributor to <i>American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture</i>.</P></td></tr></table> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/american.html" TARGET="_top">American Studies</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/urban.html" TARGET="_top">Urban Studies</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/religion.html" TARGET="_top">Religion</a> </p> <BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2> <P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/urban_life.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Urban Life, Landscape and Policy</a></i>, edited by Zane L. Miller, David Stradling, and Larry Bennett. </p><p><i>Urban Life, Landscape and Policy Series</i>, edited by Zane L. Miller, David Stradling, and Larry Bennett, features books that examine past and contemporary cities, focusing on cultural and social issues. The editors seek proposals that analyze processes of urban change relevant to the future of cities and their metropolitan regions, and that examine urban and regional planning, environmental issues, and urban policy studies, thus contributing to ongoing debates.</p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781439900284&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2009 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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