false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170900140m/77403.jpg 77403 2 While many biographies and studies of the writer and monk Thomas Merton have been published over the years, <I>The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton</I> remains the official biography sanctioned by the Thomas Merton Legacy Trust. Mott was given access to all of the private journals that, according to Merton's legacy, were not to be made public for 25 years after his death. (These have now been released; see for example <I>The Intimate Merton</I>, which contains a selection of these journal entries.) Mott's goal in this work was to approach the writer in a balanced manner--to correct the record where Merton himself may have had the facts wrong (early childhood material, for example), and to offer a different interpretation at times from the one Merton himself comes to in his own autobiographical writings. Above all Mott is not writing hagiography: this is no life of a saint, at least not in the stereotyped sense. But it is clearly the life of a real 20th-century man who, along with the expected dead ends and blind alleys, did find himself listening to a real call and following it as deeply and as passionately as his life would allow. And who knows? Perhaps that's a good definition of saint. <I>--Doug Thorpe</I> 2366343 1984 The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton total:30|5:12|4:9|3:6|2:3|1:0| 30 120 51 3 2 0 false false Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 18:34:32 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 18:39:16 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Sat Jan 31 12:45:25 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 12:46:27 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Sun Mar 02 13:44:41 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 02 13:46:16 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Mon Nov 09 22:52:43 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 22:52:43 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 19 16:47:34 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 16:47:11 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 16:49:50 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Sep 29 20:22:54 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 20:22:54 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 08 21:03:38 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 21:03:38 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Aug 20 06:53:11 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 06:53:11 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Aug 09 10:08:30 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 10:08:30 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Aug 01 17:03:03 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 17:03:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jul 28 20:53:47 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 20:53:47 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jul 19 15:44:56 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 15:44:56 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jun 17 20:22:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 20:22:00 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon May 11 13:23:27 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 13:23:27 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Apr 14 14:13:06 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 20:13:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Apr 07 16:58:05 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 16:58:05 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Apr 03 13:17:53 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 13:17:53 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Mar 14 17:30:29 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 15:08:40 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Mar 12 12:08:14 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 12:08:19 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Feb 19 14:41:29 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 14:41:29 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=77403