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Article: Bowery Blues: a tribute to Dorothy Day. (Books: tribute captures day's vision of solidarity).(Review)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- November 2, 2001
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BOWERY BLUES: A TRIBUTE TO DOROTHY DAY By Jack Cook Xlibris Books, 189 pages, $17.84
Long regarded as one of the best writers to appear in the monthly newspaper Catholic Worker on which he served as associate editor from 1966 to 1973, Jack Cook has gathered columns from his tenure there, along with more recent writing, in this insightful and beautifully written tribute to Dorothy Day. Among the various commentaries on the Catholic Worker movement, Cook's reporting provides the best understanding of the Worker's contribution to American life and the church since the books by Robert Ellsberg and Mel Piel published in the early 1980s.
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