Spanning the decades from World War II to the 2008 presidential campaign, *A God in Ruins* is the riveting story of Quinn Patrick O'Connell, an honest, principled, and courageous man on the brink of becoming the second Irish Catholic President of the United States. But Quinn is a man with an explosive secret that can shatter his political amibitions, threaten his life, and tear the country apart--a secret buried for over a half century--that even he does not know...
Book Details
Format
Mass Market Paperback
ISBN-10
0061097934
ISBN-13
9780061097935
Publication Date
Sep 2000
Item Weight
0.55 pounds
Length
6.73 inch
Width
4.17 inch
Height
1.06 inch
First Sentence
A Catholic orphan of sixty years is not apt to forget the day he first learned that he was born Jewish.
Leon Marcus Uris, novelist, was born in Baltimore, Maryland to William and Anna Uris. His father was a paperhanger who had immigrated from Poland. He was educated in schools in Maryland and Virginia, but he never graduated from high school. He joined the U.S. Marine Corps when he was seventeen and served in the South Pacific and New Zealand during World War II. He worked briefly as a driver for a newspaper, but after 1950 he was a full-time writer.
Uris published his first novel, *Battle Cry*, when he was 29. He sold the novel to a film producer and wrote the screenplay. He is well-known for his screenplay, *Gunfight at the OK Corral*. His novel, *Exodus*, was an overwhelming success, and as a result he gained international recognition. ([Source][1])
[1]: http://www.essortment.com/all/leonurisbiogra_rxiq.htm
