Drawing on writings from The Catholic Worker, this book provides a chronicle of this unique movement, its founding and growth, and its courageous grappling with such issues as poverty, homelessness, war, civil disobedience, as well as Works of Mercy, the spirit of hospitality, community, and the editors' efforts to imagine and construct a new society in the shell of the old.
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Drawing on writings from The Catholic Worker, this book provides a chronicle of this unique movement, its founding and growth, and its courageous grappling with such issues as poverty, homelessness, war, civil disobedience, as well as Works of Mercy, the spirit of hospitality, community, and the editors' efforts to imagine and construct a new society in the shell of the old.
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Good. 356p. A softcover ex-library book in original binding. Label on spine. Labels, stamps, and card pocket on endpapers. Otherwise, very good condition with text clean and binding tight. Selected excerpts from The Catholic Worker, the paper founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin during the Great Depression.
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New York, The Macmillan Company, 1968. hardcover, xvi-271 pp, First Edition, First Printing stated, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight, and clean, tidy previous owner name to front endpaper. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. A compilation of over 75 writings in radical Catholic social thought from the paper's founding in 1933 to the date of publication. Significant contributors include: Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, Thomas Merton, Gordon Zahn, Robert Ludlow, Tom Sullivan, John Cogley, and Eileen Fantino Diaz. Introduction by Paul Hanly Furfey.
