This biography chronicles the long, turbulent life of Malcolm Muggeridge, perhaps the most brilliant controversialist and media personality of his generation. Drawing from unpublished diaries, correspondence, interviews, and his prolific writings, Gregory Wolfe demonstrates the underlying unity—spiritual and intellectual—that runs through the many phases of Muggeridge’s career.
According to Wolfe, Muggeridge, like St. Augustine, endured a life-long conflict between flesh and spirit, deep involvement in the world and the need to withdraw from it. From his socialist upbringing under the influence of his father, H.T. Muggeridge, to his early years as a foreign correspondent in Cairo, Moscow, Calcutta, and Washington, to his stint as editor of Punch and meteoric career as a television personality, to his conversion to Christianity and, ultimately, Roman Catholicism, Muggeridge pursued the truth as a passionate pilgrim.
This biography argues that Malcolm Muggeridge was a prophetic scourge of the follies and fantasies of our time, one of the finest prose stylists of the twentieth century, and a defender of the Christian faith who deserves to take his place alongside G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis.
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