The Good Shepherd [Hardcover]

Thomas Fleming (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY (1974)
• ASIN: B0027U0AMO
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

More About the Author

"How do you write a book?" 24 year old Thomas Fleming asked bestselling writer Fulton Oursler in 1951. "Write four pages a day," Oursler said. "Every day except Sunday. Whether you feel like it or not. Inspiration consists of putting the seat of your pants on the chair at your desk." Fleming has followed this advice to good effect. His latest effort, "The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers," is his 50th published book. Twenty three of them have been novels. He is the only writer in the history of the Book of the Month Club to have main selections in fiction and in nonfiction. Many have won prizes. Recently he received the Burack Prize from Boston University for lifetime achievement. In nonfiction he has specialized in the American Revolution. He sees Intimate Lives as a perfect combination of his double talent as a novelist and historian. "Novelists focus on the imtimate side of life. This is the first time anyone has looked at the intimate side of the lives of these famous Americans, with an historian's eyes." Fleming was born in Jersey City, the son of a powerful local politician. He has had a lifetime interest in American politics. He also wrote a history of West Point which the New York Times called "the best...ever written." Military history is another strong interest. He lives in New York with his wife, Alice Fleming, who is a gifted writer of books for young readers.

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4.0 out of 5 stars the year 1974:the politics around a politicized archbishop, March 30, 2002

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This review is from: The good shepherd;: A novel, (Hardcover)

3/30/02 Thomas Flemings The Good Shepherd pubished by Doubleday in 1974 and presented as a condensed book by Reader's Digest in 1974..shows the Archbishop Matthew Mahan running a big city diocese(So far I've been totally curious as to how the archbishop rationalized his trying to save wayward priest from various self-destructions by finding 'nun-owned' hospitals to admit them to...vacations to send them to,when they seemed burnt out,..and promises to 'undump them'(they usually put them in with non clergy(e.g. the laity) so laiticing them still gave them hope of returning to religious duties after they'd been rehabilated.Being the 'broad shoulders for divorced women to cry on didn't help much for their celibacy vows.(in all cases the eternal sentence"I feel so unworthy," be it congregation or clergy seems to throw rational out the window.3/30/02 abj