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The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day

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The Long Loneliness

The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist

Dorothy Day

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · September 1, 2009

Reading lane: Christian Memoirs

This inspiring and fascinating memoir, subtitled, “The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist,” The Long Loneliness is the late Dorothy Day’s compelling autobiographical testament to her life of social activism and her spiritual pilgrimage.

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Why This Clicks

Faith and Public Life

A memoir where social activism and spiritual pilgrimage meet in one searching life.

Come here for

  • The crossings between 1920s Greenwich Village politics and Catholic faith
  • A thoughtful account of lifelong social commitment

Expect

  • A personal, contemplative voice
  • The tension of trying to make goodness easier in society

Book Details

Authors
Dorothy Day
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
September 1, 2009
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Christian Memoirs · Faith & Inspiration
Reading lane
Christian Memoirs

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Publisher Categories

  • Religious Lives

  • Women's Lives

  • Activist Lives

  • 20th-Century America

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  • Political Philosophy

  • Atheism

  • Catholicism

  • Christian Living

About This Book

This inspiring and fascinating memoir, subtitled, “The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist,” The Long Loneliness is the late Dorothy Day’s compelling autobiographical testament to her life of social activism and her spiritual pilgrimage. A founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and longtime associate of Peter Maurin, Dorothy Day was eulogized in the New York Times as, “a nonviolent social radical of luminous personality.” The Long Loneliness recounts her...

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This inspiring and fascinating memoir, subtitled, “The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist,” The Long Loneliness is the late Dorothy Day’s compelling autobiographical testament to her life of social activism and her spiritual pilgrimage. A founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and longtime associate of Peter Maurin, Dorothy Day was eulogized in the New York Times as, “a nonviolent social radical of luminous personality.” The Long Loneliness recounts her remarkable journey from the Greenwich Village political and literary scene of the 1920s through her conversion to Catholicism and her lifelong struggle to help bring about “the kind of society where it is easier to be good.”

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