Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain -- 2. Dorothy Day's The Long Loneliness -- 3. The Psychology of Conversion in G. K. Chesteron and C. S. Lewis -- 4. The Dual Plot of Gandhi's An Autobiography -- 5. Malcolm X and the Black Muslim Search for the Ultimate -- 6. Black Elk Speaks: A Century Later -- 7. The Remaking of an American Jew: Paul Cowan's An Orphan in History -- 8. I, Rigoberta Menchú : The Plotting of Liberation -- 9. Dan Wakefield's Returning -- 10. Retraveling the Century: Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom -- Conclusion -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- V -- W.