Dorothy Day A Radical Devotion

by Coles, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780201079746
• ISBN10: 0201079747
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-01-22
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary

Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day over thirty-five years ago when, as a medical student, he worked in one of her Catholic Worker soup kitchens. He remained close to this inspiring and controversial woman until her death in 1980. His book, an intellectual and psychological portrait, confronts candidly the central puzzles of her life: the sophisticated Greenwich Village novelist and reporter who converted to Catholicism; the single mother who raised her child in a most unorthodox "family"; her struggles with sexuality, loneliness, and pride; her devout religious conservatism coupled with radical politics. This intense portrait is based on many years of conversation and correspondence, as well as tape-recorded interviews.

Author Biography

Robert Coles is an American author, child psychiatrist, and professor emeritus at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

The Radcliffe Biography Series	p. ix
Preface	p. xv
A Life Remembered	p. i
An Inquiring Idealism	p. 17
Conversion	p. 41
The Church Obeyed and Challenged	p. 65
A Localist Politics	p. 89
Living in a House of Hospitality	p. 111
Her Spiritual Kin	p. 137
Notes	p. 161
Selected Bibliography	p. 171
About the Author	p. 175
Index	p. 177
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