TY - BOOK AU - Belmonte,Kevin Charles TI - Defiant joy: the remarkable life & impact of G.K. Chesterton SN - 1595552014 (pbk.) PY - 2011/// CY - Nashville PB - Thomas Nelson KW - Chesterton, G. K. KW - Authors, English KW - 20th century KW - Biography N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; "My earliest path" -- "From childhood to boyhood" -- A perfect storm -- And now for a career -- An "artist" in words -- Eternal ideas -- Varied types -- The tower that strikes the stars -- Heretics and first things -- No definite image of good -- Mr. Dickens's champion -- Why orthodoxy matters -- A melodramatic sort of moonshine -- Chesterton, Mencken, and Shaw -- The advent of Father Brown -- The great ballad -- Mr. Shaw's insistent demand -- The toast of London -- A near closing of the curtain -- What I saw in America -- Saint Francis -- Over to you, Mr. Wells -- Chaucer -- The pillar of the Apennines -- Men must endure their going hence -- Epilogue: A near view of the man as he was -- A Chesterton timeline ER -