A God in Ruins - Leon Uris
This book is
dedicated to my oldest and dearest friend,
HARRY KOFSKY.
Special thanks to my researcher, MARILYNNE PYSHER,
and my assistant, JEANNE RANDALL.
Man is a god in ruins…. Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
—RALPH WALDO EMERSON, NATURE
Contents
Epigraph
Part One
Chapter 1
A Catholic orphan of sixty years is not apt to…
Chapter 2
Their honeymoon became a sort of pioneer epic. D ...