"\'Let us begin again, for up to now we have done nothing.\' That enigmatic sense of beginning again at the end of life, at the end of an era, in the middle of so much failure, when you just want to rest and put the past behind you, that is the gift for reconstruction that we want to discover in this book.
It makes Francis a man for all seasons...."-from Chapter Seven. "\'Let us begin again, for up to now we have done nothing.\' That enigmatic sense of beginning again at the end of life, at the end of an era, in the middle of so much failure, when you just want to rest and put the past behind you, that is the gift for reconstruction that we want to discover in this book