Description: Brother Booker Ashe: It's Amazing What the Lord Can Do, by Willy Thorn. 2011 Trade Paperback. Very Good Trade Paperback. Slight cover corner wear. Shelf wear to the spine. No known markings. Booker Taliaferro Ashe was born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1932 to Booker T. Ashe, Sr., a lawyer, and Evelyn Livingston, a schoolteacher. With his parents and five siblings, Booker moved to Evanston, IL, just outside of Chicago. A relative of the tennis player Arthur Ashe, Booker was himself a talented actor who pursued life on the stage at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. But he soon felt called to religious life, and - to the joy of his mother and reluctance of his father - in 1951 the devout young Catholic joined the Capuchin branch of the Franciscan Ordo Fratrum Minorum (OFMs) as a brother. What followed is, as the saying goes, history... In Brother Booker Ashe: Its Amazing What the Lord Can Do, Willy Thorn presents this history, this story of a black man's life-long dedication to justice, charity, and the poor. Brother Booker lived throughout the Midwest - including Chicago, Indiana & Detroit - but spent the majority of his life in Milwaukee, preaching, directing plays, cooking grandiose meals, working for racial equality, and ministering to countless people at the landmark institution he helped found - the House of Peace. From this position, which Brother Booker assumed when he was 35 and maintained until close to his death, he became a powerful, positive influence on the entire city, the Franciscan family & the Roman Catholic Church. About the Seller: The Friends of the Shorewood Public Library is a non-profit membership organization which supports the mission of the suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin library. Member volunteers raise funds from book sales and other efforts to help the library purchase resources and sponsor special events for the community. eBay sales are among these fundraising activities. This eBay item was not in library circulation, but was donated by a reader ‘friend.’
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Book Title: Brother Booker Ashe: It's Amazing What the Lord Can Do
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Marquette University Press
Original Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 2011
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Author: Willy Thorn
Features: Illustrated
Genre: Biographies & True Stories
Topic: True Stories
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Number of Pages: 195
