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Love, Poverty, and War

Journeys and Essays

By Christopher Hitchens

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"I did not, I wish to state, become a journalist because there was no other 'profession' that would have me. I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information." The Christopher Hitchens Reader showcases America's leading polemicist's rejection of consensus and clich&Continue

"I did not, I wish to state, become a journalist because there was no other 'profession' that would have me. I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information." The Christopher Hitchens Reader showcases America's leading polemicist's rejection of consensus and cliché, whether he's reporting from abroad in Indonesia, Kurdistan, Iraq, North Korea, or Cuba, or when his pen is targeted mercilessly at the likes of William Clinton, Mother Theresa ("a fanatic, a fundamentalist and a fraud"), the Dalai Lama, Noam Chomsky, Mel Gibson and Michael Bloomberg. Hitchens began the nineties as a "darling of the left" but has become more of an "unaffiliated radical" whose targets include those on the "left," who he accuses of "fudging" the issue of military intervention in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet, as Hitchens shows in his reportage, cultural and literary criticism, and opinion essays from the last decade, he has not jumped ship and joined the right but is faithful to the internationalist, contrarian and democratic ideals that have always informed his work.

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  • Our man all over the place

    The day before this review was written Christopher Hitchens was insulted (‘ex-Trotskyist popinjay’ and other unrepea- tables) during a Washington press mêlée by George Galloway. This incident may remind those who knew Hitch when he was in short pants ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • Our man all over the place

    The day before this review was written Christopher Hitchens was insulted (‘ex-Trotskyist popinjay’ and other unrepea- tables) during a Washington press mêlée by George Galloway. This incident may remind those who knew Hitch when he was in short pants ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Mon, 13 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 432 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1560255803
  • ISBN-13: 9781560255802
  • Publisher: Thunder's Mouth, Nation Books
  • Pub date: Oct 10, 2004
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 1097 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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