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A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura
Eileen Markey
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Description for A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura
Hardcover. Num Pages: 336 pages, TBD. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; 3JJP; BGX; HBJK; HRCX7; JPWL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 206 x 35. Weight in Grams: 588.
On a hot and dusty December day in 1980, the bodies of four American women- three of them Catholic nuns- were pulled from a hastily dug grave in a field outside San Salvador. They had been murdered two nights before by the US-trained El Salvadoran military. News of the killing shocked the American public and set off a decade of debate over Cold War policy in Latin America. The women themselves became symbols and martyrs, shorn of context and background.In A Radical Faith , journalist Eileen Markey breathes life back into one of these women, Sister Maura Clarke. Who ... Read more
On a hot and dusty December day in 1980, the bodies of four American women- three of them Catholic nuns- were pulled from a hastily dug grave in a field outside San Salvador. They had been murdered two nights before by the US-trained El Salvadoran military. News of the killing shocked the American public and set off a decade of debate over Cold War policy in Latin America. The women themselves became symbols and martyrs, shorn of context and background.In A Radical Faith , journalist Eileen Markey breathes life back into one of these women, Sister Maura Clarke. Who ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Nation Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781568585734
SKU
V9781568585734
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About Eileen Markey
Eileen Markey is an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Wall Street Journal, National Catholic Reporter, America, Commonweal, and Killing the Buddha. She has worked as a producer for WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show and is a contributing editor for Housing and Homelessness at City Limits. Markey is a graduate of Fordham University's ... Read more
Reviews for A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura
In death, Maryknoll Sister Maura Clarke became known as a symbol of the brutality of El Salvador's pitiless conflict in the 1980s. In this rare and beautiful book, Eileen Markey brings Maura to life. From her childhood in a tightly knit Irish Catholic neighborhood to her departure for Nicaragua in 1959 and subsequent murder in El Salvador, Maura's life became ... Read more