My Argument with the Gestapo: A Macaronic Journal
- ISBN-10
- 081120586X
- ISBN-13
- 9780811205863
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 259
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1975
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing
- Author
- Thomas Merton
Description
Of the full-length prose works that Thomas Merton wrote before he entered the Cistercian Order in 1941, only My Argument with the Gestapo has survived--perhaps in part because it was a book that Merton never ceased wanting to see in print.
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