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'''Paul Beecher Blanshard''' (August 27, 1892 - January 27, 1980) was a famous anti-[[Catholic]] [[bigot]].<ref>[http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60810FB355511728DDDA90B94D9405B8084F1D3 Paul Blanshard, Writer and Critic Of Catholic Church, Is Dead at 87; 'Must Be Reckoned With' A Move to the Vatican], [[The New York Times]]</ref>  His works have been referred to as those of a "professional" bigot differentiating them from less literary, less sophisticated efforts such as those of [[Jack Chick]].  Blanshard's most notorious work is ''American Freedom and Catholic Power'' (1949).  Other works of anti-Catholic bigotry include ''The Irish and Catholic Power'' (1953) and Kennedy presidency-obsessed work ''The Future of Catholic Power'' (1961).<ref>[http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic204122.files/Week_Two/Massa_New_and_Old_Anti-Catholicism.pdf "New and Old Anti-Catholicism"], [[Harvard University]]</ref>

'''Paul Beecher Blanshard''' (August 27, 1892 - January 27, 1980) was a famous anti-[[Catholic]] [[bigot]].<ref>[http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60810FB355511728DDDA90B94D9405B8084F1D3 Paul Blanshard, Writer and Critic Of Catholic Church, Is Dead at 87; 'Must Be Reckoned With' A Move to the Vatican], [[The New York Times]]</ref>  His works have been referred to as those of a "professional" bigot differentiating them from less literary, less sophisticated efforts such as those of [[Jack Chick]].  Blanshard's most notorious work is ''American Freedom and Catholic Power'' (1949).  Other works of anti-Catholic bigotry include ''The Irish and Catholic Power'' (1953) and Kennedy presidency-obsessed work ''The Future of Catholic Power'' (1961).<ref>[http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic204122.files/Week_Two/Massa_New_and_Old_Anti-Catholicism.pdf "New and Old Anti-Catholicism"], [[Harvard University]]</ref>

Blanshard was editor for [[Nation (magazine)|The Nation]] and special counsel and spokesman for [[Americans United for Separation of Church and State]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schwarz|first1=Fred |url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/245807/jfks-religion-speech-fred-schwarz |title=JFK’s ‘Religion Speech’ |work=[[National Review]] |date=September 11, 2010 }}</ref>  He was also a member of the National Council for the [[League for Industrial Democracy]], for the [[Rochester, New York]] area.<ref>{{cite book|title=The challenge of waste|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SClRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP2|date=1922|pages=2}}</ref>

Blanshard's works were influential with [[Supreme Court]] justice [[Hugo Black]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rGHN2oBy_jEC&pg=PA269 Hugo Black and the Judicial Revolution]</ref>

==Early life==

==Early life==

While at university, he wrote about joining the ministry.  Blanshard was a [[Christian socialist]], but found himself more inclined toward the socialism and less toward the Christianity.

While at university, he wrote about joining the ministry.  Blanshard was a [[Christian socialist]], but found himself more inclined toward the socialism and less toward the Christianity.

<blockquote>"During those college years I arrived at two decisions about myself. I would be a socialist and I would enter the Christian ministry. In retrospect, the first decision seems entirely natural, but the second decision was the worst blunder of my life."<ref>{{cite book |first=Paul |last=Blanshard |title=Personal and Controversial: An Autobiography |publisher=Beacon Press |year=1973 |pages=20}}</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>"During those college years I arrived at two decisions about myself. I would be a socialist and I would enter the Christian ministry. In retrospect, the first decision seems entirely natural, but the second decision was the worst blunder of my life."<ref>{{cite book |first=Paul |last=Blanshard |title=Personal and Controversial: An Autobiography |publisher=Beacon Press |year=1973 |pages=20}}</ref></blockquote>

==Works==

==Works==