Hitch-22: A Memoir
ISBN:
9789029087131 (9029087137)
Publish date: January 2011
Publisher: De Boekerij
Pages no: 534
Edition language: Dutch
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Journalism,
Religion,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Biography Memoir,
Atheism
December 15 2011, the world lost a great speaker, a good man full of wit, to cancer. Reading Hitch 22 is a treat. To know a bit more intimacy of a man who had spoken so sharply, precisely what he think is right and what he considered absolutely bullshit, is fun. Hitchslap is a word invented when...
ForewordPrologue with Premonitions--Hitch-22AcknowledgementsIndex
ForewordPrologue with Premonitions--Hitch-22AcknowledgementsIndex
In a sentence: the book is about his journey learning how to think for himself rather than aligning with allegiances, or taking “the party line.” To change one’s mind is not hypocrisy — it is a willingness to be informed. Hitch brings up John Maynard Keynes’s question: “When the facts change then my...
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