Based upon his 1998 doctoral dissertation, Charles Gallagher has given us an excellent and fascinating account of the life of Joseph Hurley, Bishop of St. Augustine, who was also a noted diplomat and activist in the fight against both fascism and communism. Hurley was a man who uniquely straddled the bounds of church and state as he fought to protect his country, his church, and the world from the violent extremism of right and left, though he was a true Conservative to the end of his remarkable career.