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What transformed Daniel and Philip Berrigan from conventional Roman Catholic priests into holy outlawsfor a time the two most wanted men of J. Edgar Hoovers 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 movementa highly controversial campaign of civil disobedience against the contemporary arms trade and nuclear weapons.
Murray Polner and Jim OGrady plumb the Berrigans contradictions: among them, Philips 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 Philips excommunication from the church; and Daniels speech faulting Israels 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.
Author Biography
Murray Polner has had a rich and varied career as a teacher, college professor, writer and editor. He is the author of When Can I Come Home. His writings have also appeared in the New York Times, Newsday, the Washington Post, Commonweal, The Nation, Village Voice and the Boston Globe. He lives in Great Neck, New York. Murray Polner is an editor and the author of No Victory Parades: The Return of the Vietnam Veteran and has written for The New York Times,The Nation,Commonweal,The Washington Monthly, and many other publications. Jim O’Grady is a journalist and the author of the biography Dorothy Day: With Love for the Poor.
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