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100 1 $aHitchens, Christopher.
245 10 $aHitch-22 :$ba memoir /$cChristopher Hitchens.
246 2 $aHitch-twenty-two
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bTwelve,$c2010.
300 $ax, 435 p., [24] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
520 2 $a"The life story of one of the most admired and controversial public intellectuals of our time"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPrologue with premonitions -- Yvonne -- The Commander -- Fragments from an education -- Cambridge -- The sixties: revolution in the revolution -- Chris or Christopher? -- Havana versus Prague -- The Fenton factor -- Martin -- Portugal to Poland -- A second identity: on becoming an (Anglo) American -- Changing places -- Salman -- Mesopotamia from both sides -- Something of myself -- Thinking thrice about the Jewish question -- Edward Said in light and shade (and Saul) -- Decline, mutation, or metamorphosis?
520 $a"Most who have observed Christopher Hitchens over the years would agree that he possesses a ferocious intellect and is unafraid to tackle the most contentious subjects. Now 60, English-born and American by adoption; all atheist and partly Jewish; bohemian (even listing 'drinking' along with 'disputation' as 'hobbies' in Who's Who) he has held to a consistent thread of principle whether opposing war in Vietnam or supporting intervention in Iraq. As a foreign correspondent in some of the world's nastiest places, a lecturer and teacher and an esteemed literary critic, Hitchens manifests a style that is at once ironic, witty, and tough-minded. A legendary bon vivant with an unquenchable thirst for literature, he has sometimes ridiculed those who claim that the personal is political, though he has often seemed to illustrate that very idea. Readers will find that his own many opposites attract, as do his many sketches of friendship and ex-friendship, from Martin Amis to Noam Chomsky. Condemned to be able to see both sides of any argument, Christopher Hitchens has contradictions that contain their own multitudes." -- Publisher description.
600 10 $aHitchens, Christopher.
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