Family, Society, Politics: The Outline of Sanity, The End of the Armistice, Utopia of Usurers--and others (G. K. Chesterton: Collected Works, Volume 5) [Paperback]

G. K. Chesterton (Author), George Marlin (Editor)

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Publication Date: November 1987

G.K. Chesterton Introduction by Michael Novak and John P. McCarthy The second volume devoted to Chesterton's political, sociological and economic writings. Throughout his life Chesterton struggled against scepticism and selfishness and defended the interests of the common man. Chesterton defended democratic principles, individual freedom, property holders and small businessmen in his work The Outline of Sanity because he was convinced that capitalism and socialism were oligarchies that would suffocate the individual. There was hardly ever a more fierce, more romantic, more combative defender of private property in the history of Christianity than G.K. Chesterton. He was an ardent foe not only of socialism, but also of that form of collectivised capitalism that would ape socialism by creating the "welfare state". Also in this volume, Dr. John McCarthy examines and edits Chesterton's polemical volumes and pamphlets published during World War I, including a posthumous volume entitled The End of the Armistice. This collection demonstrates that early on Chesterton recognized the evil of Nazism. Chesterton prophesied that Hitler was bent on destroying the Jews and Poland. Sewn Softcover

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• Paperback: 657 pages
• Publisher: Ignatius Press (November 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898701708
• ISBN-13: 978-0898701708
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 1.7 inches
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This review is from: Family, Society, Politics: The Outline of Sanity, The End of the Armistice, Utopia of Usurers--and others (G. K. Chesterton: Collected Works, Volume 5) (Paperback)

This volume of Chesterton's Collected Works brings back into print The End of the Armistice, the last book GKC wrote. I have always thought this was one of his finest pieces of non-fiction. It is thoughtful and articulate, as he always was. It shows how clearly he saw Hitler and the Nazis for what they were, at a time when an embarrassing number of English and Europeans who should have known better admired Nazi Germany. Finally, it connects Chesterton's abhorrence of the Third Reich with his religious convictions, making GKC in retrospect immensely more admirable as a Roman Catholic than Pius XII. The End of the Armistice is by itself worth the price of this book.