"Vader-zoon-relaties." . . "Verenigde Staten." . . "Gezin." . . "Fathers and sons United States." . . . . "Catholic ex-priests United States Family relationships." . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Religious." . . "Catholics United States Biography." . . "Novelists, American 20th century Family relationships." . . "Catholics." . . "Ex-priests, Catholic." . . "Conflicten." . . "Vietnam-oorlog." . . "Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975." . . "Large type books." . . "Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 Protest movements United States." . . "Fathers and sons." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Joe Carroll was an Air Force lieutenant who designated Vietnamese targets for American bombs. Joe's son, James, began adulthood by fulfilling his father's abandoned dream of joining the priesthood. But soon a father's hopes for his son--and a son's peace with his father--were ruined, when James chose to protest the war and all it stood for." . . "An American Requiem is the story of one man's coming of age. But more than that, it is a coming to terms with the conflicts that disrupted many families, inflicting personal wounds that were also social, political, and religious. Carroll grew up in a Catholic family that seemed blessed. His father had abandoned his own dream of becoming a priest to rise through the ranks of Hoover's FBI and then become one of the most powerful men in the Pentagon, the founder of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Young Jim lived the privileged life of a general's son, dating the daughter of a vice president and meeting the pope, all in the shadow of nuclear war, waiting for the red telephone to ring in his parents' house. He worshiped his father until Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights movement, turmoil in the Catholic Church, and then Vietnam combined to outweigh the bond between father and son. These were issues on which they would never agree. Only after Carroll left the priesthood to become a writer and husband with children of his own did he come to understand fully the struggles his father had faced. In this work of nonfiction, the best-selling novelist draws on the skills he honed with nine much-admired novels to tell the story he was, literally, born to tell. An American Requiem is a benediction on his father's lief, his family's struggles, adn teh legacies of an entire generation."@en . "Large type books" . . . . . . . . . "Biography"@en . "Biography" . . . . . . . . "An American Requiem : God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us" . . . "Herinneringen (vorm)" . "An American requiem God, my father, and the war that came between us"@en . . . "An American requiem : God, my father, and the war that came between us" . . "An American requiem : God, my father, and the war that came between us"@en . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . . . "Author's memoir about his relationship with his father who was a high ranking general through most of the Vietnam War, and how he entered the priesthood, quickly becoming part of the radical faction protesting the war, and eventually breaking his vows to marry and have a family.--" . . "Novelists, American." . .