Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (984 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005KFQ8GA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 275 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A brilliant intro for new fans, and a fantastic "Best Of" for old ones" according to B Waters. I should begin by admitting that I just received this book today; however, as a longtime fan of Hitch's work, I've already read the majority of these essays, so I feel confident in writing this review now.I pre-ordered this book months ago, but until today I didn't know which of his essays would be included. I'm absolutely thrilled by the final product. To begin with, it's massive - at nearly 800 pages, it's larger than "god Is Not Great" and "Hitch-2. jjlaw said Book Reviews become Art. A masterful collection. Here is Hitchens as dream dinner party guest, slightly sloshed, louche but animated still, a couple of buttons down on the shirt, perspiring, smiling. His hands move as he makes his point. You have forgotten already about dessert. This Hitchens is still alive and well on the many "Hitch-slapped" compilations put up on YouTube.A large book, to be dipped into when, as Durant said of Nietzsche, you need "a bracing wind across a co. Herbert L Calhoun said Hitch a la carte. Here is America's man of letters, wielding his peculiar brand of wisdom, wit, and acerbic humor at its best and at the highest levels available in his adopted homeland: Taking no prisoners, and leaving no trace of blood on the killing floors as he pulls the stiletto from his victims, one-by-one.Not only does he define "what we are confronting" as a society, but he also sharpens the lens through which we see it. Clarity of thought and clarity of opinio
Ballard; from the enduring legacies of Thomas Jefferson and George Orwell to the persistent agonies of anti-Semitism and jihad. The book forms a bridge between the two parallel enterprises of culture and politics. In this fashion, Arguably burnishes Christopher Hitchens' credentials as - to quote Christopher Buckley - our "greatest living essayist in the English language.". Hitchens even looks at the recent financial crisis and argues for the enduring relevance of Karl Marx. Topics range from ruminations on why Charles Dickens was among the best of writers and the worst of men to the haunting science fiction of J.G. It reveals how politics justifies itself by culture, and how the latter prompts the former. The first new collection of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004, Arguably offers an indispensable key to understanding the passionate and skeptical spirit of one of our most dazzling writers, widely admired for the clarity of his style, a result of his disciplined and candid thinking