Without Peter Maurin, there would be no Catholic Worker movement. His  meeting and teaching Dorothy Day gave her the spiritual and intellectual  grounding in Catholicism that she needed and together they began the  movement that continues to challenge us.  In The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin, Lincoln Rice has compiled the definitive version of Maurin’s  'Easy Essays,' showing both the  scholar and the general  reader how Maurin’s words have relevance as we navigate the perils of  the twenty-first century."—Rosalie Riegle, author of Dorothy Day: Portraits by Those Who Knew Her on The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin: Easy Essays from the Catholic Worker

“This book is a magic lantern that brings Dorothy Day to life in all her miraculous humanity. Vivian Cherry’s photographs and Kate Hennessy’s moving text capture Day, with striking intimacy, in all the roles that defined her: as a woman of prayer and protest, companion of the poor, doting grandmother, and leader of the Catholic Worker family. Together with selections from Day’s own writings, they transport us into a world in which seemingly ordinary people have tried, with extraordinary faith, to live as if the gospel were true.”—Robert Ellsberg, editor of Dorothy Day: Selected Writings on Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker: The Miracle of Our Continuance