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Hitch-22: A Memoir - Christopher Hitchens
Hitch-22: A Memoir
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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... show more
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)
Publisher: Twelve
Pages no: 435
Edition language: English
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XOX
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5.0 Thinking man, Christopher Hitchens
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...
Edward
Edward rated it
5.0 Hitch 22: A Memoir
ForewordPrologue with Premonitions--Hitch-22AcknowledgementsIndex
Edward
Edward rated it
5.0 Hitch 22: A Memoir
ForewordPrologue with Premonitions--Hitch-22AcknowledgementsIndex
chadkoh
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5.0 Hitch-22
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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Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well? Kurt Vonnegut: Wampeters, Foma and GranfalloonsThe Young Christopher HitchensThis is my first time reading a Christopher Hitchens's book; of course, it is not my first exposure t...
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