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James Fisher argues that Catholic culture was transformed when products of the immigrant church, largely inspired by converts like Dorothy Day, launched a variety of spiritual, communitarian, and literary experiments. He also explores the life and works of Thomas A. Dooley and Jack Kerouac to show that their experiences signaled a new Catholic appreciation of the American tradition of creative freedom.

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• Acknowledgments(p. xi)
• Introduction(p. xiii)
• The Conversion of Dorothy Day(p. 1)
• 2 Fools for Christ"""" Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement, 1933-1949""""(p. 25)
• 3 The Catholic Workers and Catholic Culture, 1933-1949(p. 71)
• 4 The Limits of Personalism Integrity and the Marycrest Community, 1946-1956(p. 101)
• 6 A Catholic Errand in the Wilderness Tom Dooley in Laos and America, 1956-1961(p. 167)
• 7 Jack Kerouac and Thomas Merton, the Last Catholic Romantics(p. 205)
• Epilogue(p. 249)
• Notes(p. 255)
• Bibliography(p. 283)
• Index(p. 299)

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CHOICE Review

Though distance may lend enchantment, historical closeness lends confusion; and when the closeness is to the enormous contemporary diversity of the Roman Catholic Church, the possibilities for confusion increase. Given these difficulties, Fisher's study of American Catholic counterculture between 1933 qnd 1962 is remarkable for its scholarly insight. He goes beyond the standard biographical details of the lives of Dorothy Day (founder of the Catholic Worker Movement), of Thomas Dooley (medical hero of Laos), of novelist Jack Kerouac, and author and Trappist monk Thomas Merton to show how each contributed to the transformation of American Catholic culture from an immigrant culture to one much more complex. That complexity he sees as made up, first, of mainstream Catholics successfully integrating themselves into American life while maintaining their basic Catholic identity and, second, of a group of "romantics," including those mentioned, who developed a variety of communitarian, literary, and spiritual movements. All this is thoroughly documented and liberally sprinkled with shrewd insights into events so close that they are hard to untangle and clarify. Some readers may find Fisher's key analytical tool of ascetical negation against prevailing culture to be more closely tied to secular counterculture of the 60s than to the centuries-long Catholic spiritual tradition, where negation is subordinate to affirmation. Nevertheless, this handsomely produced book is an essential addition to the short shelf of serious studies of modern American Catholicism. Recommended for college and research libraries. -R. W. Rousseau, University of Scranton

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James Terence Fisher is the Danforth Chair in Humanities and Professor in Theological Studies and History at Saint Louis University. His other works include Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961 .