All the Way To Heaven - Selected Letters of Dorothy Day

Author: Dorothy Day, Edited by Robert Ellsberg
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by: Dorothy Day
, Edited by Robert Ellsberg

Dorothy Day, cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement, has been called the most significant, interesting, and influential person in the history of American Catholicism. Now the publication of her letters, previously sealed for 25 years after her death and meticulously selected by Robert Ellsberg, reveals an extraordinary look at her daily struggles, her hopes, and her unwavering faith.

This volume, which extends from the early 1920s until the time of her death in 1980, offers a fascinating chronicle of her response to the vast changes in America, the Church, and the wider world. Set against the backdrop of the Depression, World War II, the Cold War, Vatican II, Vietnam, and the protests of the 1960s and 1970s, she corresponded with a wide range of friends, colleagues, family members, and well-known figures such as Thomas Merton, Daniel Berrigan, Cesar Chavez, Allen Ginsberg, Katherine Anne Porter, and Francis Cardinal Spellman, shedding light on the deepest yearnings of her heart. At the same time, the first publication of her early love letters to Forster Batterham highlight her humanity and poignantly dramatize the sacrifices that underlay her vocation.

"These letters are life-, work-, and faith-affirming." - National Catholic Reporter

Trade Paperback. 624 pages.
ISBN: 9780767932813
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Brand Crown Publishing
Author Dorothy Day, Edited by Robert Ellsberg
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