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Dorothy Day : a radical devotion / Robert Coles.

Title
Dorothy Day : a radical devotion / Robert Coles.
Author
Coles, Robert
Publication
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1987.

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Description
xxi, 182 p.; 24 cm
Summary
Robert Coles confronts candidly the central puzzles of Dorothy Day's life: the sophisticated Greenwich Village novelist and reporter who converted to Catholicism; the unwed mother; her struggles with sexuality; and her social and religious conservatism coupled with radical politics. The Radcliffe Biography Series.
Series Statement
Radcliffe biography series
Uniform Title
Radcliffe biography series
Subject
  • Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980
  • Catholics > United States > Biography
  • Social reformers > United States > Biography
Genre/Form
Biographies
Note
  • "A Merloyd Lawrence book."
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 171-174.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
A life remembered -- An inquiring idealism -- Conversion -- The church obeyed and challenged -- A localist politics -- Living in a house of hospitality -- Her spiritual kin -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- About the author.
ISBN
0201028298 :
LCCN
^^^87000981^
OCLC
  • 15223166
  • SCSB-11254414
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library