Hitch-22: A Memoir
Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He has been both a foreign correspondent in...
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Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He has been both a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous places and a legendary bon vivant with an unquenchable thirst for alcohol and literature. He is a fervent atheist, raised as a Christian, by a mother whose Jewish heritage was not revealed to him until her suicide. In other words, Christopher Hitchens contains multitudes. He sees all sides of an argument. And he believes the personal is political. This is the story of his life, lived large.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780446540339 (0446540331)
Publish date: June 2nd 2010
Publisher: Twelve
Pages no: 435
Edition language: English
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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