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Disarmed and Dangerous - The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan (Hardcover)
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Disarmed and Dangerous - The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan (Hardcover)
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What transformed Daniel and Philip Berrigan from conventional Roman
Catholic priests into ?holy outlaws??for a time the two most wanted
men of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI? And how did they evolve from their
traditionally pious, second-generation immigrant beginnings to
become the most famous (some would say notorious) religious rebels
of their day?Disarmed and Dangerous, the first full-length
unauthorized biography of the Berrigans, answers these questions
with an incisive and illuminating account of their rise to
prominence as civil rights and antiwar activists. It also traces
the brothers' careers as constant thorns in the side of church
authority as well as their leadership of the ongoing Plowshares
movement?a highly controversial campaign of civil disobedience
against the contemporary arms trade and nuclear weapons.Murray
Polner and Jim O'Grady plumb the Berrigans' contradictions: among
them, Philip's secret marriage, while he was still a Josephite
priest, to Elizabeth McAlister, then a Catholic nun, which led to
their dismissals by their respective religious orders and Philip's
excommunication from the church; and Daniel's speech faulting
Israel's treatment of Palestinians, and the resulting criticism
loosed upon him from pro-Israeli Americans and many of his allies
on the left.Disarmed and Dangerous is a fascinating study of
brothers linked by faith and the dreams of peace and social justice
in a century bloodied by war, mass murders, and weapons of immense
destructive power. It is, above all, an original contribution to
modern American history that is sure to be widely read and
discussed.
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