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"[I]ntensely interesting ... the images are kaleidoscopic." —The Atlantic"[A]n intimate, revealing and sometimes wrenching family memoir." —The New York Times"Hennessy’s biography unspools slowly, though not leisurely or even comfortably, as it is genuinely questing after personal and familial enlightenment, and tests of willpower, of facing the human weaknesses, blind errors, and hurtfulnesses of one you love, are the bitter of honesty. Her biography is also embracing – a cinematic documentary – so there is much to admire in this pilgrim’s progress." —The Christian Science Monitor"[A] deeply intimate and highly credible account ... Hennessy explores themes of integrity, vocation, and community, portraying Dorothy Day honestly in her gifts and faults. But the most powerful thread is raw beauty that links together the author to her grandmother, strangers to one another, and people to God." —Sojourners"[T]he striking story of this remarkable, but complicated woman." —Relevant Magazine"Like her grandmother, Hennessy is a writer of great skill, blending interviews, family letters, writings by Dorothy and other members of the Worker, and her own memories into a coherent whole ... Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty is a work of love, not greed or pride, and that's what gives it much of its beauty." —Chicago Reader"[B]eautifully written ... searingly honest." —America Magazine"This biography vividly conveys the vision and the adventure of this extraordinary woman who deserves to be called a saint." —Spirituality and Practice"Fascinating, well-told, candid, and tender." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Dorothy Day comes to life, here, but [her daughter] Tamar also lives on the page, engaged with her mother in an absorbing family drama that Hennessy depicts with warmth, poignancy, and not a little poetry." —Booklist, starred review
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About the Author
Kate Hennessy is a writer and the youngest of Dorothy Day’s nine grandchildren. Her work has been included in Best American Travel Writing. She is the author of Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved By Beauty and, in collaboration with the photographer Vivian Cherry, Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker: The Miracle of our Continuance. Kate divides her time between Ireland and Vermont.
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Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Scribner; Reprint edition (November 7, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1501133977
ISBN-13: 978-1501133978
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5.5 x 1 x 8.4 inches
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Dorothy Day had a rather idiosyncratic life. She started out as a reporter on one of the many issue oriented papers in the early part of the twentieth century and that in New York managed to associate with a mix of the bohemian and left wing crowds of the day. She was involved with several different men, having first an abortion for a pregnancy and then giving birth out of wed-lock on what may have been the second. After that she converted to Catholicism and aggressively pursued the Social Justice movement popular at the time. This included a focus on seeking better conditions for labor and immigrants.The book by Hennessy, her granddaughter, is a well written and somewhat balanced presentation of her life. Now for Day there have been a multiplicity of biographies as well as autobiographies so that one approaching Hennessy from that perspective will see a great deal of repetition of events. But Hennessy presents them in a fresh and readily readable manner.One may ask why Day still plays an interesting role. First, it is the movement amongst Social Justice activists in the Catholic Church to seek Sainthood for her. Support is coming from many directions, such as Dolan in New York and Francis in Rome. This book by Hennessy is not a plea for Sainthood but a balanced presentation of her life. The second reason is that Day was a Social Justice advocate and as such one can examine her life and through it try to obtain a better understanding of just what that entails.Now from my personal perspective I approached Day tangentially. In writing about my grandmother, Hattie Kruger, a Socialist in New York, a Suffragette, a woman who rand for Congress in 1918 and for New York State Office with Eugene Debs in 1920, I found that Hattie was arrested with Day and the two were in the first batch of women arrested in November 1917 by order of President Wilson and sent to Occoquan Prison where they were brutalized and force fed, again by orders of Wilson. Thus my grandmother spent time with Day and thus I wondered what type of person she was. Furthermore Day lived three blocks from my Grandmother on State Island and my parents are buried a few grave sites from Day in the same Cemetery. So much for coincidences!I was writing a piece on my Grandmother and her time as a Suffragette. I especially was focused on her time being arrested under the direct orders of Woodrow Wilson, that misogynistic, racist, anti-Semite, anti-Catholic, all around good guy. And we worry about Robert E. Lee, but I digress. Wilson hated these women walking around with signs asking for the right to vote. After all, he was a Virginian, a man, and more importantly the President. So off with their heads, or the next best thing was to arrest them and ship them off to prison. Get them past a friendly judge, and then to Occoquan Prison, now Lorton. Throw them in cells, host then down, let them starve! Yes indeed a real nice fellow Wilson was. After all he had just gotten us into WW I, sent a few hundred thousand to France, no uniforms though, but what the heck, let them figure out how to deal with the French snows.My Grandmother was in the first batch of women on that cold November day thrown into the back of the Black Marias, the police wagons. There were no Paddy Wagons in DC, not enough Irish. Along with her was a young lady called Dorothy Day. I had originally thought Day was there as a Suffragette. Not really. She was sent down as a reporter to cover the protest for her New York newspaper. She just happened to "be on the corner when the bus went by" so to speak. She became an "accidental Suffragette". Now Day recalls but one of the people with her and Day recalls that they joyfully discussed literature in the prison. Day at this time seems to have been more interested in the "adventure" of the moment and somewhat apart from the underlying cause, the right to vote for women. That surprised me, at least until I discovered a bit more about Day.Days life during the teens and twenties was somewhat that of a libertine. In Day's writing and in that of Hennessy there are no holds barred regarding this period. One could surmise that this period is a bit like that of Augustine of Hippo, who took his concubine to Italy to study, abandoned her, then let his child loose, and then his son died. Augustine then returned to Hippo and had a career writing against the likes of the Donatists and Pelagians. The theme may have some parallel.What did this "accidental Suffragette" do after her exposure to this world? It seems that she found God in the Catholic Church. Like many converts I have known, my mother having been one, they often move aggressively into their new found faith, and accept it in all its deepest dimensions. For Day is was a move which led to the founding of the Catholic Worker, a rather left wing but "Catholic" weekly. It focused on helping the oppressed, especially during the Depression period. Day indicates that the naming was in contradistinction to that of the Daily Worker, the paper of the Communist Party.She then was accompanied by a French intellect and wanderer who convinced her to leverage this paper into a full blown mission, a mission to the poor and homeless, for which there were many in the 1930s. She soon found herself at the center of a movement, dedicated to this new found faith and its focus on human equality and justice.By the 1940s she had also become an avowed pacifist and was strongly opposed the US entry into WW II, especially after Pearl Harbor. In the 1950s, she vehemently opposed the use of nuclear weapons and the execution of the Rosenbergs. By the 1960s she had a multiplicity of "farms" and similar places where people assembled and had what we called "Retreats", which were week-long "spiritual" get-togethers where they contemplated and listened to religious lectures. During this period she strongly opposed the Vietnam War, was pro-integration, and supported the farm workers actions and other similar equal rights movements.She developed a wide cadre of admirers and fellow movement supporters ranging from labor leaders to religious figures such as Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk. By the 1970s, in her later years, she saw a slow reduction of many of these ventures, especially as she aged and was in poor health.There is often comparison of Day to such figures as Francis of Assisi and others yet one can see Francis as the founder of a sustained Order of Friars who had a substantial impact on Catholic teaching. It is not clear what the sustained influence of Day will be. But it is worth the while to see through the eyes of her grand daughter what Day did, why, and to examine the consequences of her efforts. As with Ms. Hennessy, I also look back in awe to some of the actions of my grandmother, and the event that led to the passing of these people as ships in the night.
Intimate, authentic, challengingKate Hennessy's book is not only a portrait of her grandmother, Dorothy Day, but also a moving account of the life of her mother, Tamar. The richness of their relationship, the calling of the work of the Catholic Worker and the joys, struggles and beauties make this a book to savor.If this is the first book that you are to read on Dorothy Day, I suggest that you first pick up one of Dorothy's books like On Pilgrimage, Loaves and Fishes or The Long Loneliness.Read one of these first and then immediately read Kate's book. Although the Catholic Worker started 85+ years ago, the writing by and about Dorothy Day are even more powerful today.The ending was stunningly beautiful. For Kate to return to multi-generational relationships between mothers and daughters was very rich. There were many scenes at the Catholic Worker either in NYC or at the farms that were challenging. I had lived in a Catholic Worker House for 3 years and it brought back many fond memories AND anxieties!For those who listen to this book ---It is a book that needed to be listen to over a good length of time in order to reflect on her words and the life of Dorothy Day.It is too bad that Kate Hennessy was not asked to be the reader. I have listened to her present on her book tour and she would have been fabulous. There is something intimate and beautiful in this book that would have been enhanced by subtle inflections had Kate been the reader.
My interest in Dorothy Day was sparked in 1984 after reading William Miller’s “Dorothy Day.†I learned by reading “Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty†it was not an entirely accurate portrayal of her life, but it was enough for me to become mesmerized with this amazing woman of faith who was a writer and activist. Her words and actions were matched by her life characterized by the corporal works of mercy. Over the years I’ve read other biographies as well as histories of the Catholic Worker, and while the main points are usually similar, in other ways they were telling the story of a very different woman. At first, I saw these differences as mistakes or misinterpretations, but after a while I came to realize that Dorothy Day was a complex woman who was remarkably consistent but could also be seen by different people in a variety of ways. This is what makes Kate Hennessy’s contribution so important. Hennessy is not the typical biographer who looks at Dorothy Day with a specific lens. She is Day’s youngest granddaughter and gives us a glimpse of Dorothy Day that most of us have not encountered prior to this book.While the classification of this book is biography, to me it is a dual biography and a memoir. Most of the attention is paid to Dorothy herself, and Hennessy covers the usual topics: Dorothy’s upbringing, her radical years, mistakes she made and failed relationships, her rocky relationship with Foster Batterham, the birth of her daughter Tamar, her joining the Catholic Church, and the founding of the Catholic Worker. She also discusses in detail Dorothy’s daughter and Kate’s mother Tamar. In many biographical works Tamar is discussed, bit the relationship seems strained more than anything else. As only a daughter dn granddaughter can, Kate Hennessy delves into the relationship and the personality of her mother and shares intimate details of the rocky marriage she had to David Hennessy. Kate herself palys a role in the story, but she does not interject her story into the narrative except where necessary and you see how both mother and grandmother shaped her. While the book is hardly sentimental, you do see that Dorothy Day loved her family even if she could come across as judgmental and was at times incapable of being warm. We also see her religious journey in a different light. While there is no question her faith is deep and real, Hennessey is not afraid to present some of the faith struggles her grandmother had as well as some of the dangerous religious tendencies she had a times.On of Dorothy Day’s popular quotes is “Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed so easily.†This itself could be a contradiction for Dorothy Day herself had a great love for the saints and often included well known and obscure saints in her writing. If you’re looking for a saccharinely, overly pious figure, Kate Hennessy’s book will not provide you with such a person. If you want to know the story of one of the greatest figures in 20th century Catholicism and understand her life not just through her accomplishments and writings, but also through her faults and weaknesses, this book will be a treasure. Do I think Dorothy Day is a saint after reading this book? That’s up to the Vatican to decide, but for me, knowing a bit more about Dorothy Day’s humanity makes her more inspiring, and if you, like me, have read all kinds of books about Dorothy Day and want a work that will bring them into perspective, this volume will certainly help a great deal.
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