 He became known as the "Gandhi of Sicily".In the 1950s and 1960s, Dolci published a series of books (notably, in their English translations, "To Feed the Hungry", 1955, and "Waste", 1960) that stunned the outside world with their emotional force and the detail with which he depicted the desperate conditions of the Sicilian countryside and the power of the Mafia.Dolci became a kind of cult hero in the United States and Northern Europe; he was idolised, in particular by idealistic youngsters, and support committees were formed to raise funds for his projects.