The Gospel of Father Joe: Revolutions and Revelations in the Slums of Bangkok

Greg Barrett

ISBN 10: 0470258632 / ISBN 13: 9780470258637

Published by Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CVA, 2008

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First printing. Author inscribed on the title page. Gilt lettering on black covers in a black & pictorial dust jacket. 8bo, 336pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Gospel of Father Joe: Revolutions and Revelations in the Slums of Bangkok
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CVA
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470258632
• ISBN 13: 9780470258637
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Three decades ago in a cordoned-off corner of the developing world an angry Catholic priest armed only with pencil, paper, and crayons, declared a revolution. From a shanty school shared with Buddhists and Muslims in Bangkok's squatter slums, Father Joe Maier began his advance on abject poverty. Today, his Human Development Foundation and Mercy Centre charity is responsible for thirty-two preschools that have taught more than twenty thousand children how to read and write. Despite the crippling neglect found in impoverishment, he is raising international scholars and injecting a sense of purpose into shantytowns and squatter camps that used to have neither.

About the Author

Greg Barrett is a twenty-year veteran of local, national, and foreign reporting for wire and newspapers in Georgia, the Carolinas, Hawaii, and Maryland. He was a roving correspondent based in the Washington, D.C., bureau for Gannett News Service/USA Today when he met Father Joe Maier, and most recently he worked as a state correspondent for the Baltimore Sun. He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and two sons.