Paul Moses, author of An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York’s Irish and Italians, and The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia, joins us to speak on what the New York story—and the personal experiences of St. Frances Cabrini and famed detective Joseph Petrosino—can tell us about trying to break the historical cycle of prejudice that confronts immigrants, even in this City of Immigrants.
Paul Moses is a professor emeritus of journalism at Brooklyn College and a former reporter and editor at New York Newsday, where he was the lead writer in a team that won a Pulitzer Prize. His book The Saint and the Sultan: The Crusades, Islam and Francis of Assisi’s Mission of Peace won the Catholic Press Association award for best history book. He is a contributing writer at Commonweal magazine.
