Peter Maurin's Easy Essays

"Featuring 482 of Peter Maurin's essays, as well as 87 previously unpublished ones, this text offers a great contribution to the corpus of twentieth-century Catholic life. Providind scholarly and contextual information for the modern reader, this annotated collection includes more than 350 footnotes that offer a layer of intelligibility to explain Maurin's use of obscure references to historical people and events that would have been common knowledge for readers during the 1930s. This book shapes the way Maurin is read in the present day and the ways leftist Catholicism is understood as part of twentieth-century history"--Book cover.