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God's journalist.("Chesterton")

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From: Commonweal
Date: 20020125
Author:Johnson, Luke Timothy

Chesterton 
Garry Wills 
Doubleday, $14, 330 pp. 

Why should Gilbert Keith Chesterton still matter? Born in Victorian England in 1874 and dead in 1936, before the outbreak of World War II, he ought to seem as quaint as the romantic cloak, hat, and stick that adorned his oversized body in its meanderings down a Fleet Street that now is only a historical memory rather than a living institution. The great allies and antagonists with and against whom he debated and whose ideas seemed then to matter so much (Belloc, Wells, Shaw, Kipling), are remembered now less for their ideas than ...

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