A god in ruins
a novel
by Leon Uris
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Spanning the decades from World War II to the 2008 presidential campaign, A God in Ruins is the story of Quinn Patrick O'Connell, an honest, principled, and courageous man on the brink of becoming the second Irish Catholic President of the United States. In an era morally unmoored, rife with armed separatists and fundamentalist zealotry, Quinn, the last great liberal of the Rocky Mountains, emerges as America's hope to reclaim its great past and its promises of the future.
But Quinn is a man with an explosive secret that can shatter his political ambitions and threaten his life - a secret buried for over a half century that even he does not know....
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A god in ruins: a novel
1999, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
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A god in ruins: a novel
1999, HarperCollins Publishers
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"A Catholic orphan of sixty years is not apt to forget the day he first learned that he was born Jewish."
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Spanning the decades from World War II to the 2008 presidential campaign, A God in Ruins is the riveting story of Quinn Patrick O'Connell, an honest, principled, and courageous man on the brink of becoming the second Irish Catholic President of the United States. But Quinn is a man with an explosive secret that can shatter his political amibitions, threaten his life, and tear the country apart--a secret buried for over a half century--that even he does not know...
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