Out of the Whirlwind: a novel

New York: McBride, 1935. Hardcover. 479p., first edition stated, sunning to spine with faded silver spine titles, bound in red cloth boards with silver smokestack vignette on front cover. Walsh was an anti-Semitic Roman Catholic whose books reflected those beliefs. His previous book appeared to resurrect the Blood Libel and his own statements accused the Jewish people of fomenting their own misery by rejecting "Our Lord and Savior." Novel depicts the spiritual regeneration of a young Polish/Lithiuanian factory worker in New England, falsely charged with murder and imprisoned for life. On his way, he rejects atheism and Marxism. Father Talbot, editor of (truncated) the Catholic journal "America," called it "the greatest American Catholic novel. (Inventory #: 334473)