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Table of Contents
Che Guevara : goodbye to all that
Orwell's list
Orhan Pamuk : mind the gap
Bring on the mud
Ohio's odd numbers
On becoming American
Mikhail Lermontov : a doomed young man
Salman Rushdie : Hobbes in the Himalayas
My red-state odyssey
The turkey has landed
Bah, humbug
A.N. Wilson : downhill all the way
Ian Fleming : bottoms up
Power suits
Blood for no oil!
How uninviting
Look who's cutting and running now
Oriana Fallaci and the art of the interview
Imperial follies
Clive James : the omnivore
Gertrude Bell : the woman who made Iraq
Physician, heal thyself
Edmund Wilson : literary companion
On the limits of self-improvement, part I : of vice and men
On the limits of self-improvement, part II : vice and versa
On the limits of self-improvement, part III : mission accomplished
Ayaan Hirsi Ali : the price of freedom
Arthur Schlesinger : the courtier
Paul Scott : Victoria's secret
The case against Hillary Clinton
The tall tale of Tuzla
V.S. Naipaul : cruel and unusual
No regrets
Barack Obama : cool cat
The lovely stones
Edward M. Kennedy : redemption song
Engaging with Iran is life having sex with someone who hates you
Colin Powell : Powell valediction
Shut up about Armenians or we'll hurt them again
Hezbollah's progress
The politicians we deserve
Rosa Luxemburg : red Rosa
Joan Didion : blue nights
The true spirit of Christmas
Charles Dickens's inner child
G.K. Chesterton : the reactionary
The importance of being Orwell
What is patriotism?
Edition Notes
Includes index.
"The essays in this book originally appeared, sometimes in slightly different form, in the following publications: The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, The New York Review of Books, Slate, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, The Wilson Quarterly"--Title page verso.
Issued also in electronic format.
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