Race with the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love - Hardcover

Joseph Pearce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 161890065X ISBN 13: 9781618900654

Publisher: Saint Benedict Press, 2013

Synopsis

Race with the Devil Before he was the world's foremost Catholic biographer, Joseph Pearce was a leader of the National Front, a British-nationalist, white-supremacist group. Before he published books highlighting and celebrating the great Catholic cultural tradition, he disseminated literature extolling the virtues of the white race, and calling for the banishment of all non-white from Britain. In 1982 he was imprisoned for six months for hate speech, but he came out with more anger, and more resolve. Several years later, he was imprisoned again, this time for a year and it spurred a sea change in his life. In Race with the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love,...

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Review:

Joseph Pearce's story of imprisonment for racial antagonism and his encounter with the rosary should go down as one of the most compelling beginnings of a conversion in print. Pearce's candor, direct style, and purged heart force our own examination of con­science and assurance of mercy. It's been a long time since I read a spiritual memoir with such enthusiasm and I already knew the story from years of friendship with Joe. Reading it, however, raised it to the dignity and public seriousness it deserves. --Al Kresta, President and CEO, Ave Maria Radio

Race With the Devil is a harrowing and exhilarating- account of how God laid hold of a tumultuous soul and brought it to joy. Very highly recommended. --Dr. Thomas Howard, On Being Catholi

This book is a lively, informative, and many times a surprising book of a life, the con­tours of which most of us had no idea. Pearce always writes well and vividly. This book itself belongs to that Catholic `literary tradition' about which Pearce writes of so well. --James V. Schall, S. J., Emeritus Professor, Georgetown University

About the Author:

Joseph Pearce is Writer in Residence and Visiting Fellow at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, NH. He is a renowned biographer whose books include Candles in the Dark: The Authorized Biography of Fr. Ho Lung, Missionaries of the Poor (Saint Benedict Press, 2012); Through Shakespeare s Eyes: Seeing the Catholic Presence in the Plays (Ignatius Press, 2010); and Tolkien: Man and Myth, a Literary Life (HarperCollins, 1998). He is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Higher Education from Thomas More College for the Liberal Arts and the Pollock Award for Christian Biography. He is co-editor of the St. Austin Review, editor-in-Chief of Ignatius Press Critical Editions, and editor-in-Chief of Sapientia Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Saint Benedict Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 161890065X
• ISBN 13: 9781618900654
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 247