Edward Sorin
A skilled biographer and professor emeritus of history at Notre  Dame, O'Connell (Blaise Pascal: Reason of the Heart) honors the  legacy of Edward Sorin with blunt honesty and fraternal esteem.  Drawing on archival resources, many housed at the University of  Notre Dame, and on his own travels and studies, O'Connell  chronicles the life of the missionary priest from France who  founded the world-famous University of Notre Dame. O'Connell has  thoroughly researched and documented the life and labor of  Sorin, beginning with his birth in Ahuille, France, and  concluding some 79 years later in the presbytery at Notre Dame,  surrounded by his beloved religious co-workers. Sorin was given  the task of creating a college, and in a short 800 pages the  reader enters into the world of 19th-century Catholicism and  experiences Sorin's challenges and joys as he faced this  daunting goal. This encyclopedic work is both engaging and  academic and destined to be the definitive work on Edward Sorin.  Recommended for all academic libraries. John-Leonard Berg, Univ.  of Wisconsin, PlattevilleCopyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.