Love, poverty, and war : journeys and essays /

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 fundamentalis...

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Main Author: Hitchens, Christopher
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : [Berkeley, Calif.] : Nation Books ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2004
Series:Nation Books.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The medals of his defeats
  • A man of permanent contradictions
  • The old man
  • Huxley and Brave New World
  • Greeneland
  • Scoop
  • The man of feeling
  • The misfortune of poetry
  • The acutest ear in Paris
  • Joyce in bloom
  • The immortal
  • It happened on Sunset
  • The ballad of Route 66
  • The adventures of Augie March
  • Rebel ghosts
  • America's poet? : Bob Dylan's achievement
  • I fought the law in Bloomberg's New York
  • For Patriot dreams
  • Martha Inc.
  • Scenes from an execution
  • In sickness and by stealth
  • The strange case of David Irving
  • Why Americans are not taught history
  • A hundred years of muggery
  • Unfairenheit 9/11 : the lies of Michael Moore
  • Virginity regained
  • The divine one
  • The devil and Mother Teresa
  • Blessed are the phrasemakers
  • Jewish powers, Jewish peril
  • The future of an illusion
  • The gospel according to Mel
  • The struggle of the Kurds
  • Thunder in the Black Mountains
  • Visit to a small planet
  • Havana can wait
  • The Clinton-Douglas debates
  • We're still standing
  • The morning after
  • Against rationalization
  • Of sin, the Left, & Islamic fascism
  • A rejoinder to Noam Chomsky
  • Blaming Bin Laden first
  • The ends of war
  • Pakistan : on the frontier of apocalypse
  • Saddam's long good-bye
  • A liberating experience.