The God that Failed
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Harper & Brothers
, 1949The God That Failed is a 1949 collection of six essays by Louis Fischer, André Gide, Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Stephen Spender, and Richard Wright.[1] The common theme of the essays is the authors' disillusionment with and abandonment of communism.
Essays
Member of Parliament who conceived and edited the volume, at one point approached the famous American ex-communist Whittaker Chambers about contributing an essay to the book. At the time Chambers was still employed by Time magazine, having not yet gone public with his charges against Alger Hiss
, and so declined to participate.
The book contains Fischer's definition of "
William F. Buckley, Jr., and Norman Podhoretz.[citation needed
]
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