For God and Our Country

The life of Edward Vattmann

Several weeks ago I posted Meet Edward Vattmann anticipating the publication of my biography, For God and Our Country: The Remarkable Life of Edward Vattmann, Priest and Patriot.

I’m delighted to share the book is now available and can be found on Amazon here.

I could say more, but I’ll let the back cover do that:

One thing I’d like to say about the writing of this biography — and that I hope readers get from time spent with the book — is echoed in the words of one of the earliest biographers, Plutarch, who flourished in the late first century and early second century.

“Using history as a mirror I try by whatever means I can to improve my own life and to model it by the standard of all that is best in those who lives I write. As a result, I feel as though I were conversing and indeed living with them; by means of history I receive each of them in turn, welcome and entertain them as guests and consider their stature and their qualities and select from their actions the most authoritative and the best with a view to getting to know them. What greater pleasure could one enjoy than this or what is more efficacious in improving one’s own character?” — Plutarch, Life of Timoleon

Cheers!