Dorothy Day tells of her early life as a young journalist in the crucible of Greenwich Village political and literary thought in the 1920's, and of her momentous conversion to Catholicism that meant the end of a Bohemian lifestyle and common law marriage.
Day also chronicles her lifelong association with Peter Maurin and the genesis of the Catholic Worker Movement. Unstinting in her commitment to peace, nonviolence, raciaL justice, and the cause of the poor and the outcast, she became an inspiration to such activists as Thomas Merton, Michael Harrington and Cesar Chavez.
