The Berrigan Brothers; The Story of Daniel and Philip Berrigan
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1974. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [6], 174, [2] pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Part of DJ missing from the bottom right corner of the front cover and is price clipped. Mr. Curtis was a noted author. Daniel Joseph Berrigan SJ (May 9, 1921 – April 30, 2016) was an American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, Christian pacifist, playwright, poet, and author. Berrigan's protests against the Vietnam War earned him both scorn and admiration, especially regarding his association with the Catonsville Nine. He was arrested multiple times, sentenced to prison for three years for destruction of government property, and was listed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's "most wanted list" after flight to avoid imprisonment (the first-ever priest on the list) and was sentenced to prison for destruction of government property. For the rest of his life, Berrigan remained one of the United States' leading anti-war activists. In 1980, he co-founded the Plowshares movement, an anti-nuclear protest group, that put him back into the national spotlight. Berrigan was an award-winning and prolific author of some 50 books, a teacher, and a university educator. Philip Francis Berrigan SSJ (October 5, 1923 – December 6, 2002) was an American peace activist and Catholic priest with the Josephites. He engaged in nonviolent, civil disobedience in the cause of peace and nuclear disarmament and was often arrested. In 1973, he married a former nun, Elizabeth McAlister both were subsequently excommunicated by the Catholic Church before being reinstated. For eleven years of their 29-year marriage they were separated by one or both serving time in prison. Derived from a Kirkus review: Curtis doesn't repeat the objections to the Berrigans' roles as moral warriors; nor does he make very extensive use of the brothers' -- especially Daniel's -- own writings which state their case more eloquently than even his sympathetic reportage could. He does a fine job of tracing their intellectual and practical involvement in social causes -- back as far as their union leader father and religious mother, Daniel's contact with the worker-priest movement in France and Philip's graduation from the hard school of sit-ins and civil rights marches. The more complex aspects of Daniel's thought -- the influence of Thomas Merton, his attraction to mysticism, his poetry -- are acknowledged. Curtis makes his admiration clear, he also makes the Berrigans human -- men who have suffered from self-doubt, nervousness and impetuosity at the same time as they have extended their influential witness. Condition: Very good / Good.
Keywords: Daniel Berrigan, Philip Berrigan, Antiwar Movement, Activists, Protest Movements, Civil Rights, Catonsville Nine, Boyd Douglas, Harrisburg Seven, Elizabeth McAlister, Vietnam War, Conscription, Draft Boards
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