My recent quartet of used Amazon purchases so far is going well though a recent version also has an intro by the author's old student, Justice Alito (anyway, it can be read free online at Amazon via "look in"). Our current pope might not be a former vet and Chief Justice (over half of the 750 pg. paperback covers the pope period) but does share the same name as well as some of the sentiments of the 1979 version.
I hoped for more SCOTUS content and think the pope content could have been cut some (especially some of the detail). Alito's intro (quite charming) notes the author spoke partially from experience, including as an academic officer during the Korean War. Overall, very readable with multiple points of view. The author had some legal writings but also a long fictional bio of Peter and a shorter WWII volume with some of the characters of this book as well. "So-called homosexual marriage" referenced before cell phones, Mr. Alito.
ETA: The pope section does go on too long and let's his power get to him too much. There is no sense in his previous roles that he went as far as he did here. It might in a fashion be a sign that a pope has too much power. But, putting that aside, given his very appointment is a bit of a stretch, this might have taken things too far dramatically as well.
I hoped for more SCOTUS content and think the pope content could have been cut some (especially some of the detail). Alito's intro (quite charming) notes the author spoke partially from experience, including as an academic officer during the Korean War. Overall, very readable with multiple points of view. The author had some legal writings but also a long fictional bio of Peter and a shorter WWII volume with some of the characters of this book as well. "So-called homosexual marriage" referenced before cell phones, Mr. Alito.
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