Fighter with a Heart : Writings of Charles Owen Rice, Pittsburgh Labor Priest / Edited by Charles J. McCollester

Rice, Charles Owen (1908-)

ISBN 10: 0822939665 / ISBN 13: 9780822939665

Published by Pittsburgh : University Of Pittsburgh Press, 1996

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An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 244 pages; Description: xx, 244 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. Subjects: Rice, Charles Owen, 1908-. Church work with the working class--United States--History--20th century. Labor movement--Religious aspects--Christianity. 2 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fighter with a Heart : Writings of Charles Owen Rice, Pittsburgh Labor Priest / Edited by Charles J. McCollester
• Publisher: Pittsburgh : University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822939665
• ISBN 13: 9780822939665
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 2 kilograms

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Synopsis

Monsignor Charles Owen Rice stands out as one of the most influential religious figures in western Pennsylvania history. As Pittsburgh’s controversial labor priest, he has had a major impact on the American labor movement. A radio commentator for for forty years and a newspaper columnist for nearly sixty, he has raised his voice to support workers’ struggles, resist racists, chide the comfortable, and champion the poor, the homeless, and the imprisoned. Monsignor Rice’s writings form a unique chronicle of an era from a point of view that defies easy catagorization into ";right"; or ";left."; In fact, one of the most stirring facts about his writings is the degree to which he reflected on and critiqued his own early anticommunism. Confidant of Phil Murray, John L. Lewis, Mike Quill, Joe Curran, Walter Reuther, and many others great and small, Rice knew the labor movement as few others did. A marcher with Martin