Books : MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE: A LIFE
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by: IAN HUNTER
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780006265108
Format: Import
ISBN: 0006265103
Label: FOUNT PBS.
Manufacturer: FOUNT PBS.
Number Of Pages: 270
Publication Date: 1982
Publisher: FOUNT PBS.
Studio: FOUNT PBS.
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - A man at right turns to convention.
The first reviewer has analyzed the strengths of this biography quite astutely: I also found Hunter's engaged, questioning, opinionated style appropriate to the man analyzed, and lively, besides. Muggeridge has lived on all six inhabited continents, "outed" Joseph Stalin, a German spy, and Mother Theresa for what they (respectively) were, interviewed Khrushchev and De Gaul, and found Jesus. This is not just the story of a man, it is the story of a century.
Muggeridge seemed born ... Read More
Rating: - Malcom, We Hardly Knew Ye
The few biographies I've read seem to be of two sorts. The first sort retreads all the old ground of the life of what-his-name: blah blah blah, and then subjects the dry-as-dust "facts" to some sort of psychological analysis to liven them up. Absolutely to be avoided. In the second sort, the author engages the subject as Jacob wrestled with the angel: as does a real life, it seems not a finished product, but a work in progress. To this second class Ian Hunter's bio of Malcom Muggeridge happily belongs. ... Read More
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