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Also by Christopher Hitchens:

Mortality, September 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Hitch-22, June 2010
Hardcover
Our Man in Havana, August 2007
Paperback
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, August 2007
Hardcover
God Is Not Great, May 2007
Hardcover
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, June 2005
Trade Size (reprint)
Love, Poverty, and War, October 2004
Trade Size
Why Orwell Matters, September 2003
Trade Size
A Long Short War, June 2003
Trade Size
The Missionary Position, April 1997
Paperback

Love, Poverty, and War
Christopher Hitchens

Journeys and Essays

Nation Books
October 2004
432 pages
ISBN: 1560255803
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"I did not, I wish to state, become a journalist because there was no other 'profession' that would have me. I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information." The Christopher Hitchens Reader 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 fundamentalist and a fraud"), the Dalai Lama, Noam Chomsky, Mel Gibson and Michael Bloomberg. Hitchens began the nineties as a "darling of the left" but has become more of an "unaffiliated radical" whose targets include those on the "left," who he accuses of "fudging" the issue of military intervention in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet, as Hitchens shows in his reportage, cultural and literary criticism, and opinion essays from the last decade, he has not jumped ship and joined the right but is faithful to the internationalist, contrarian and democratic ideals that have always informed his work.

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