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REVIEW OF DANIEL GOLDHAGENS A righteous RECKONING THE ROLE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE HOLOCAUST AND ITS UNFULLFILLED duty OF REPAIRThis essay will review Daniel Goldhagens controversial clean inquiry, A Moral Reckoning The Role of the Catholic Church in the final solution and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair, published in 2002. Goldhagen tended to(p) Harvard University as a graduate, lowgraduate and assistant professor until he was denied kick upstairs in 2003 this possibly indicates his limited status as an academic. Goldhagen nones that he is indebted(predicate) to his father, a Holocaust survivor, for some of his findings on the Holocaust. This personal connection to the Holocaust on the one hand allows Goldhagen to write more passionately. On the new(prenominal) hand, it obscures his ability to view evidence objectively, evident in this book under review. Goldhagen status rose to nonoriety due to the controversial nature of his get-go book, Hitlers Willing Executio ners published in 1996. This received much review article and perhaps more importantly to Goldhagen, plenty of publicity. The contentious assertions of the book, whether academically legitimate or not, established the relative novice amongst historians. This is evident in the teemingness of secondary literature that comments on Goldhagens work including that edited by F. Littell and F. Kautz. Goldhagens credentials as a controversial author beg off the extremist content of his second book, A Moral Reckoning. Goldhagens academic background in political science is evident in the books emphasis on the church as a political conception and the pope as a political leader (p. 184). . This limits his work as a historian as he fails to fully examine the business office of the individual. Goldhagens ... ...es are manipulated for his argument. Goldhagens controversial and stimulating train encourages look for to continue and in 2013 Jewish leaders pressured Pope Francis to open the Vatican muniment from 1939-1947. The opening of these archives will instigate more investigations in this theater and until these archives are opened the historical record will not be clarified. The importance of these archives illustrates the evoke nature of historical literature. The study of history focuses predominantly around primary materials, however these materials do not provide a definitive depiction of the past. Historians analyze primary sources to descend an interpretation of the past. The discrepancies between historians interpretations form historiographical debate. It would be interesting to examine the extent to which historians are perhaps just academic storytellers.