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This biography of Malcolm Muggeridge traces the varied life of one of the most brilliant and controversial men of the twentieth century. The author, Ian Hunter, was given full access to all of Muggeridge's unpublished material, letters, and diaries. The result is an objective, well-researched, and honest account that is sometimes at variance with Muggeridge's own recollection of events. Ian Hunter captures the humor, the intellect, the rawness of perception, the abandoned honesty of a man engaged in knowing himself, his world, and his God. Malcolm Muggeridge was not merely a "vendor of words," as he invariably described himself, but was also a celebrated author, broadcaster, lecturer, debate...
Wolf, founder and editor of Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, draws on Muggeridge's (1903-1990) writings, correspondence, interviews, unpublished diaries, and his own friendship with Muggeridge to chronicle the long and turbulent life of the controversial writer and social critic. From his socialist upbringing to his years as foreign correspondent, editor, television personality, and convert to Roman Catholicism, the author delves behind the public persona to reveal the underlying spiritual and intellectual unity that runs through the many phases of his career. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Excerpts drawn from books, essays, journalism, broadcasts, scripts, diaries and letters, 1926-1986.
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England's "bad boy" essayist and critic uses his wit and iconoclastic talents to deflate a number of sacred cows.
Malcolm Muggeridge was one of Great Britain's most well-known journalists and television personalities, having interviewed practically every major public figure of his time. He shocked the world with his conversion to Christianity later in life. "St. Mugg", as he was affectionately known, was clear in his new-found faith: It is the truth that has died, not God, and "Jesus was God or he was nothing." These wonderful selections of Muggeridge's writings and speeches cover a wide variety of spiritual themes, revealing his profound faith, great wit, and lively writing style. Topics include "Jesus: The Man Who Lives", "Is There a God?", "The Prospect of Death", "Do We Need Religion?", "Peace and P...
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From the book: Ò What is a conversion? The question is like asking, 'What is falling in love?' There is no standard procedure, no fixed time. No Damascus Road experience has been vouchsafed me; I have just stumbled on, like Bunyan's Pilgrim, falling into the Slough of Despond, locked up in Doubting Castle, terrified at passing through the Valley of the Shadow of Death; from time to time, by God's mercy, relieved of my burden of sin, but only, alas, soon to acquire it again.Ó ÒFrom my earliest years, there was something going on inside me other than vague aspirations to make a name for myself and a stir in the world: something that led me to feel myself a stranger among strangers in a stra...
This first volume of the autobiography of an inveterate journalist and communicator ends in 1933 when the author was 30.
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