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  • Hardcover: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Marquette Univ Pr; 1st edition (October 20, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0874620619
  • ISBN-13: 978-0874620610
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5.0 out of 5 starsmeeting a more hidden Dorothy Day
By Jim Forest on May 25, 2011
Format: Hardcover
Dorothy Day was a prolific letter writer but until now few of her letters were available. The hundreds of letters in the Catholic Worker archive at Marquette University were sealed for the first 25 years following her death in 1980. With the publication of All the Way to Heaven, finally those who value her life have access to a more private Dorothy, in some ways familiar, in other ways full of surprises.

The letters shed fresh light on her struggles, her faith, her spiritual life, her life in community, her relationship with her common-law husband, Forster Batterham, and with her daughter Tamar and with her grandchildren. The result is a rich, three-dimensional portrait of one the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century.

Robert Ellsberg's introduction is itself one of the book's treasures. Dorothy's life, he notes, "involved constant letter-writing: acknowledging and thanking contributors, responding to queries from priests and church officials, answering critics, exhorting and encouraging fellow Catholic Workers around the country, writing letters to editors and city agencies, letters of support to prisoners of conscience, advice on practical aspects of hospitality, or pastoral responses to young people coping with existential crises and spiritual struggles. When she traveled there were also letters home, or letters to her daughter Tamar and her grandchildren. There were letters to old friends and to innumerable strangers. In every case she connected intensely with the needs of her correspondents, just as she did with the people at hand. In reading and responding to letters, Dorothy responded not just to the particularities of the moment; she saw her correspondents' struggles, their yearnings, their sufferings in relation to the universal human condition, and as part of a drama that linked this life and the life to come. As she liked to quote St. Catherine of Siena, the fourteenth-century mystic, `All the way to Heaven is heaven.'"
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5.0 out of 5 starsWindow into Dorothy Day's life and work
By Jon M. Sweeney on October 18, 2011
Format: Hardcover
This terrific collection of letters offers glimpses of the daily life and work of Dorothy Day. Her correspondents are sometimes famous, such as Allen Ginsberg and Thomas Merton, and there are plenty of letters here written to other key figures in the Catholic renaissance movement of social justice from the 20th century, such as Daniel Berrigan, Jim Forrest, and Fritz Eichenberg. But my favorite moments are letters written to the IRS (the Catholic Worker never paid federal income tax) and to priests and monsignors who objected to the liberal positions published in the paper.
One final note: The press has published the book beautifully and lastingly. You will appreciate the sewn binding and pass this book on to your grandchildren.
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5.0 out of 5 starsShe sets an impressive example to others to follow in caring for others and especially the poor. When reading a lengthy biograph
By perky on April 3, 2016
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Dorothy Day was a most interesting and charitable character. I felt so drawn to her as I read books about her. She sets an impressive example to others to follow in caring for others and especially the poor. When reading a lengthy biography of hers it brought tears at the end to have "known" her through the book. While I include this note with this particular book which I actually have not read yet I can just say that I look forward to reading more about Dorothy Day and am glad to have the opportunity to read this book also. She is truly an inspiration
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4.0 out of 5 starsGood insight into the life and thoughts of Dorothy Day
By chailatte on October 8, 2014
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Good insight into the life and thoughts of Dorothy Day. A little longer than I expected and sometimes tedious to read. Very thorough, though. Would recommend this to someone who likes reading another's thoughts in great detail.
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4.0 out of 5 starsA Great Representation of a true Servant of God
By Sarah Dozier on September 22, 2013
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The Catholic Worker Movement, as I see it, was and is a personal movement that seeks to alleviate the suffering of the poor and promote Christian tenets of peace in a non-Christian society. That's a gross simplification, but when the Worker was founded and grew, some of its foremost interests were providing alternatives to war and addressing a growing disparity between rich and poor. For more information, I would suggest looking at Catholic Worker [dot] Org's web page.

So, the Catholic Worker was not only a House of Hospitality (addressing bodily and spiritual needs of the poor) but also a newspaper. Some call it a radical movement, and in my reading of Dorothy Day's letters, I definitely see that her views and the views of the Worker were radical. But not in the often used sense of the word radical- the one that dismisses others as "extreme". No, her views were radical but in the oldest sense of the word: going to the root. She, Peter Maurin, and the other Workers went to the root and heart of Christianity. The center of Christ's teaching to care for the poor, to turn the other cheek, to love others, to live sacrificially. That's radical.

Day is also often referred to, punnily enough, as a Saint for our day- which I think is apt. She reflected and addressed timeless concerns, but also modern concerns: abortion, the decay of family, modern warfare.

The book itself, as the title indicates, is a collection of Day's letters to various clergy, politicians, and laypeople. Day was a prolific letter writer and wrote to the likes of Alan Ginsberg, Eunice Shriver, Thomas Merton, Cesar Chavez. She wrote tenderly, honestly, passionately.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsModern Day Saint

Dorothy's letter s show what an enigmatic woman she was. She disagreed and agreed with the best of them and held her own. May her cause for sainthood reach completion. Read more

Published on July 4, 2014 by John Bowdle
4.0 out of 5 starsPrimary Source

This is a primary source of Dorothy Day's thinking. It is long--perhaps too many letters covering similar thoughts but it is direct line to her personality and spirituality. Read more

Published on January 30, 2014 by Karen Shortridge
4.0 out of 5 starsAll the Way to Heaven

All the Way to Heaven is an anthology of letters written by Dorothy Day from 1923 to 1980. I did some research to find out the year in which she was born (which was 1897 if you... Read more

Published on October 11, 2013 by Stuart Dunn
5.0 out of 5 starsLove it

All I can say is I Love the book and jsut take each entry and reflect on her love and the challenges she faced just as we do everyday.

Published on April 16, 2013 by tcm
4.0 out of 5 starsThis is a long book, of many letters.

It's a good read, to see changing decades of a woman, with her life and those around her. Besides the CW, the dealing with her daughter, the father of her daughter, the wars of... Read more

Published on January 30, 2013 by UserName_PenName
5.0 out of 5 starsSoon to Blessed

Fine women,she has really touched my heart,,her story remarkable,she a was a very giving woman to the rejected of this world, a very Blessed New Year to all

Published on January 18, 2013 by margie maltese

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