This is the cover of American Priest: The Ambitious Life and Conflicted Legacy of Notre Dame s Father Ted Hesburgh by Wilson D. Miscamble, CSC. The book is reviewed by Patrick T. Brown. (CNS)
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On March 3, 2015, college students donned heavy coats against the brutal Lake Michigan winter and lined a concrete drive on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. In a very particular sense, many of them would not have been there without the efforts of the man to whom they paid their respects Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh, who guided that university for 35 years on a path toward ever-higher academic prowess and prestige, but, as a new biography argues, not without tradeoffs.
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NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS) Holy Cross Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, who died Feb. 26 at age 97, was known simply as Father Ted by Notre Dame students and was well known by U.S. presidents and other political figures, church leaders and members of Congress.