PRISON JOURNALS OF A PRIEST REVOLUTIONARY

by Philip Berrigan ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 13, 1970

Philip Berrigan is the first American Catholic priest to have gone to jail for ""political crimes""--first (1967) for pouring blood on draft records in Baltimore, and then (1968) for napalming draft records in Catonsville, Maryland. This little book is his own record of his imprisonment. It is a ""journal"" only in the broadest sense, since it comprises a variety of material in a variety of forms: Berrigan's statements at sentencing, essays, a letter, an interview, etc., as well as a fragmentary prison diary. The book will serve two purposes: first, to satisfy Berrigan's many admirers; second, to answer the questions of those who are curious about Berrigan's motives and mentality. To such readers, it will matter little that Philip is not the affective writer that his more famous brother, Daniel, is; nor will it be taken amiss that a disproportionate amount of space is given over to peripheral matters such as the minutiae of prison discipline. As Berrigan explains (in another context), ""Our imagination hasn't caught up with this reality at all.

Pub Date: July 13, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 1970

Categories: NONFICTION