Georgetown's Second Founder: Fr. Giovanni Grassi's News on the Present Condition of Republic United States North America in Bloomington, MN

Father Grassi was the ninth president of Georgetown and pioneered its transition to a modern university, earning him the moniker Georgetown’s Second Founder. Originally published in Italian in 1818 and translated here into English for the first time, Grassi’s rich observations of life in the young republic will fascinate historians of Catholicism.