Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother by Kate Hennessy

Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother

Kate Hennessy

384 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir religion emotional reflective slow-paced

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The life and work of Dorothy Day—the iconic, celebrated, and controversial Catholic whom Pope Francis called a “great American”—told with illuminating detail by her granddaughter.Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was a prominent Catholic, writer, social act...

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