Western Troika by Joan Frawley Desmond

Western Troika

The President, The Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World
by John O’Sullivan
Regnery, 2006
(360 pages, $27.95, hardcover)

reviewed by Joan Frawley Desmond

In The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister, John O’Sullivan, National Review editor at large and a veteran British journalist, describes the parallel and intersecting goals and experiences of John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher.

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Joan Frawley Desmond is a freelance writer who lives with her husband and three children in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She is a recent graduate of the John Paul II Institute for the Study of Marriage and the Family.

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