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The Quotable Hitchens

Windsor Mann
The Quotable Hitchens Book PDF

Author : Windsor Mann
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780306819834

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The Quotable Hitchens by Windsor Mann Pdf

Over the past few decades, the bestselling author of Hitch-22 has crisscrossed the globe debating religious scholars, Catholic clergy, rabbis, and devout Christians on the existence of God -- appearances that have attracted thousands of people on both sides of the issue. He has been invited to talk shows and events to discuss everything from the death of Jerry Falwell to the sainthood of Mother Teresa, from U.S. policy in the Middle East to the dangers of religious fundamentalism and beyond. And he is always armed with pithy discourse that is as intelligent as it is quotable. The Quotable Hitchens gathers for the first time the eminent journalist, public intellectual, and all-around provocateur Christopher Hitchen's most scathing, inflammatory, hilarious, and clear-cut commentary from the course of his storied career. Drawn from his many TV appearances, debates, lectures, interviews, articles, and books, the quotations are arranged alphabetically by subject -- from atheism and alcoholism to George Orwell and Bertrand Russell, from Islamofascism and Iraq to smoking and sex.

The Quotable Hitchens

Windsor Mann
The Quotable Hitchens Book PDF

Author : Windsor Mann
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780306819834

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The Quotable Hitchens by Windsor Mann Pdf

Over the past few decades, the bestselling author of Hitch-22 has crisscrossed the globe debating religious scholars, Catholic clergy, rabbis, and devout Christians on the existence of God--appearances that have attracted thousands of people on both sides of the issue. He has been invited to talk shows and events to discuss everything from the death of Jerry Falwell to the sainthood of Mother Teresa, from U.S. policy in the Middle East to the dangers of religious fundamentalism and beyond. And he is always armed with pithy discourse that is as intelligent as it is quotable. The Quotable Hitchens gathers for the first time the eminent journalist, public intellectual, and all-around provocateur Christopher Hitchen's most scathing, inflammatory, hilarious, and clear-cut commentary from the course of his storied career. Drawn from his many TV appearances, debates, lectures, interviews, articles, and books, the quotations are arranged alphabetically by subject--from atheism and alcoholism to George Orwell and Bertrand Russell, from Islamofascism and Iraq to smoking and sex.

And Yet...

Christopher Hitchens
And Yet Book PDF

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781476772066

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And Yet... by Christopher Hitchens Pdf

"This collection of essays brings together some of the finest pieces Hitchens published over the last two decades for the first time in one book, addressing with characteristic wit and erudition the subjects he is best known for, including: the case against God, faith and religious observance; the case for intervention in Iraq; indictments of towering political figures like Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, and Henry Kissinger; and celebrations of the writers and thinkers whose work meant most to him" --

Love, Poverty and War

Christopher Hitchens
Love Poverty and War Book PDF

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780857899385

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Love, Poverty and War by Christopher Hitchens Pdf

In this sweeping collection of essays, reportage and criticism, Hitchens' polemical talents at their most fearsome. "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." Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays showcases the Hitchens' 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.

Quotable Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens
Quotable Hitchens Book PDF

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0306820633

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Quotable Hitchens by Christopher Hitchens Pdf

A compendium of never-before-collected quotations from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Christopher Hitchens on hundreds of subjects

The Portable Atheist

Christopher Hitchens
The Portable Atheist Book PDF

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780306817229

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The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens Pdf

Christopher Hitchens's personally curated New York Times bestselling anthology of the most influential and important writings on atheism, including original pieces by Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwan From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages--with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a splendidly godless universe in this first-ever gathering of the influential voices--past and present--that have shaped his side of the current (and raging) God/no-god debate. With Hitchens as your erudite and witty guide, you'll be led through a wealth of philosophy, literature, and scientific inquiry, including generous portions of the words of Lucretius, Benedict de Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Mark Twain, George Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Emma Goldman, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and many others well-known and lesser known. And they're all set in context and commented upon as only Christopher Hitchens--"political and literary journalist extraordinaire" (Los Angeles Times)--can. Atheist? Believer? Uncertain? No matter: The Portable Atheist will speak to you and engage you every step of the way.

Blood, Class and Empire

Christopher Hitchens
Blood Class and Empire Book PDF

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780786740796

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Blood, Class and Empire by Christopher Hitchens Pdf

Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America's "special relationship" with Britain. But as events have shown, especially in the wake of 9/11, the political and cultural ties between America and Britain have grown stronger. Blood, Class and Empire examines the dynamics of this relationship, its many cultural manifestations -- the James Bond series, PBS "brit Kitsch," Rudyard Kipling -- and explains why it still persists. Contrarian, essayist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens notes that while the relationship is usually presented as a matter of tradition, manners, and common culture, sanctified by wartime alliance, the special ingredient is empire; transmitted from an ancien regime that has tried to preserve and renew itself thereby. England has attempted to play Greece to the American Rome, but ironically having encouraged the United States to become an equal partner in the business of empire, Britain found itself supplanted.

No One Left to Lie to

Christopher Hitchens
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Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Verso
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1859842844

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No One Left to Lie to by Christopher Hitchens Pdf

Suggests that President Clinton's largest legacy may be the weakening of the presidency and of the Democratic Party.

God Is Not Great

Christopher Hitchens
God Is Not Great Book PDF

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781551991764

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God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens Pdf

Christopher Hitchens, described in the London Observer as “one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time” takes on his biggest subject yet–the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris’s recent bestseller, The End Of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope’s awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix.

Mortality

Christopher Hitchens
Mortality Book PDF

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781742695198

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Mortality by Christopher Hitchens Pdf

Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers.

Why Orwell Matters

Christopher Hitchens
Why Orwell Matters Book PDF

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786725892

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Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens Pdf

"Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the twenty-first century." --Boston Globe In this widely acclaimed biographical essay, the masterful polemicist Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the achievements, and the myth of the great political writer and participant George Orwell. True to his contrarian style, Hitchens is both admiring and aggressive, sympathetic yet critical, taking true measure of his subject as hero and problem. Answering both the detractors and the false claimants, Hitchens tears down the façade of sainthood erected by the hagiographers and rebuts the critics point by point. He examines Orwell and his perspectives on fascism, empire, feminism, and Englishness, as well as his outlook on America, a country and culture toward which he exhibited much ambivalence. Whether thinking about empires or dictators, race or class, nationalism or popular culture, Orwell's moral outlook remains indispensable in a world that has undergone vast changes in the seven decades since his death. Combining the best of Hitchens' polemical punch and intellectual elegance in a tightly woven and subtle argument, this book addresses not only why Orwell matters today, but how he will continue to matter in a future, uncertain world.

The Trial of Henry Kissinger

Christopher Hitchens
The Trial of Henry Kissinger Book PDF

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Verso
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1859843980

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The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens Pdf

In this incendiary book, Hitchens takes the floor as prosecuting counsel and mounts a devastating indictment of Henry Kissinger, whose ambitions and ruthlessness have directly resulted in both individual murders and widespread, indiscriminate slaughter.

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man

Christopher Hitchens
Thomas Paine s Rights of Man Book PDF

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555849276

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Thomas Paine's Rights of Man by Christopher Hitchens Pdf

A “brief but potent” appreciation of one of the most influential and revolutionary works of political thought “mixing biography, criticism and philosophy” (Los Angeles Times). Christopher Hitchens, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of God Is Not Great, has been called a Tom Paine for our times. In this addition to the Books that Changed the World Series, Hitchens vividly introduces Paine and his Declaration of the Rights of Man, the world’s foremost defense of democracy. An outraged response to Edmund Burke’s attack on the French Revolution, Paine’s immortal text is a passionate defense of man’s inalienable rights, and the key to his reputation. Ever since the day of its publication in 1791, Declaration of the Rights of Man has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, suppressed, and co-opted. But in Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man, Hitchens marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. Famous as a polemicist and provocative commentator, Hitchens himself is a political descendant of the great pamphleteer. Here, he demonstrates how Paine’s book became the philosophical cornerstone of the United States of America, and how “in a time when both rights and reason are under several kinds of open and covert attack, the life and writing of Thomas Paine will always be part of the arsenal on which we shall need to depend.” Enlivened by Hitchens’s extraordinary prose, this “elegant and useful primer . . . ought still to engage us all” (The Guardian). “Paine, as Hitchens notes in this lucid and fast-moving appreciation, has no proper memorial anywhere; this slender book makes a good start.” —Kirkus Reviews

The Cameron Delusion

Peter Hitchens
The Cameron Delusion Book PDF

Author : Peter Hitchens
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441183026

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The Cameron Delusion by Peter Hitchens Pdf

The struggle between the main political parties has been reduced to an unpopularity contest, in which voters hold their noses and sigh as they trudge to the polls. Peter Hitchens explains how and why British politics has sunk to this dreary level - the takeover of the parties and the media by conventional left-wing dogmas which then call themselves 'the centre ground'. The Tory party under David Cameron has become a pale-blue twin of New Labour, offering change without alteration. Hitchens, a former Lobby reporter, examines and mocks the flock mentality of most Westminster journalists, explains how unattributable lunches guide coverage and why so many reporters - once slavish admirers of Labour - now follow the Tory line. This updated edition of Hitchens's The Broken Compass (2009) features a brand new introduction. In an excoriating analysis, Hitchens examines the Tory Party's record in government and opposition, dismissing it as a failure on all fronts but one - the ability to win office without principle. The one thing it certainly isn't is conservative.

Letters to a Young Contrarian

Christopher Hitchens
Letters to a Young Contrarian Book PDF

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780786739073

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Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens Pdf

"Art of Mentoring" seriesIn the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents. Who better to speak to that person who finds him or herself in a contrarian position than Hitchens, who has made a career of disagreeing in profound and entertaining ways. This book explores the entire range of "contrary positions"-from noble dissident to gratuitous pain in the butt. In an age of overly polite debate bending over backward to reach a happy consensus within an increasingly centrist political dialogue, Hitchens pointedly pitches himself in contrast. He bemoans the loss of the skills of dialectical thinking evident in contemporary society. He understands the importance of disagreement-to personal integrity, to informed discussion, to true progress-heck, to democracy itself. Epigrammatic, spunky, witty, in your face, timeless and timely, this book is everything you would expect from a mentoring contrarian.