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| Genre/Form: | Essay essays Essays Essais |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hitchens, Christopher. For the sake of argument. London ; New York : Verso, 1993 (OCoLC)624383094 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Christopher Hitchens |
| ISBN: | 0860914356 9780860914358 |
| OCLC Number: | 28338759 |
| Description: | 353 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Where were you standing? -- On the imagination of conspiracy -- Contempt for the little colony -- The state within the state -- Voting in the passive voice -- The hate that dared not speak its name -- A pundit who need never dine alone -- Hard on the houseboy -- New Orleans in a brown shirt -- Rioting in Mount Pleasant -- Billionaire populism -- The clemency of Clinton -- Clinton as Rhodesian -- Bill's Bills in Miami -- Realpolitik in the Gulf : a game gone tile -- Churchillian delusions -- No end of a lesson -- Befriending the Kurds -- Arise, Sir Norman -- Jewish in Damascus -- Songs fit for heroes -- Hating Sweden -- Squeezing Costa Rica -- The saviour -- Tio Sam -- The autumn of the patriarch -- Third thoughts -- Cretinismo Eroico -- The twilight of Panzerkommunismus -- Police mentality -- On the road to Timisoara -- Bricks in the wall -- The free market cargo cult -- How neo-conservatives perish -- Appointment in Sarajevo -- 'Society' and its enemies -- Credibility politics : Sado-monetarist economics -- Union jackshirt : Ingham's conservative chic -- Neil Kinnock : defeat without honour -- Bribing and twisting. (Cont'd) How's the vampire? -- Charlie's angel -- Unhappy families -- Princess of dysfunction -- New York intellectuals and the prophet outcast -- Clubland intellectuals -- The 'We' fallacy -- Shouting anarchy -- Politically correct -- Friend of promise -- Booze and fags -- Nixon : maestro of resentment -- Kissinger : a touch of evil -- Berlin's mandate for Palestine -- Ghoul of Calcutta -- The life of Johnson -- A grave disappointment all around -- Too big for his boot -- P.J. O'Rourke : not funny enough -- Not funny enough (2) -- Warhol in one dimension -- Siding with Rushdie -- Goya's radical pessimism -- Degenerate art -- James Baldwin : humanity first -- Updike on the make -- P.G. Wodehouse in love, poverty and war -- Greene : where the shadow falls -- Kazuo Ishiguro -- Victor Serge -- C.L.R. James -- In defence of Daniel Deronda. |
| Responsibility: | Christopher Hitchens. |
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Displays the intelligence, invective and stubborn common sense Mr Hitchens brings to his commentaries, be they about the political scene in Washington, the soap-opera travail of the British Royal family or a novel by George Eliot. * New York Times * Hitchens rejoices without inhibition in the pleasure of hating and knows that satire is murder by other means ... . A pen like this is more lethal than most swords. * The Observer * One easily forgets just how good Christopher Hitchens is ... multilingual, well-travelled, hyper-educated, pissed-off, always funny, he has no equal in American journalism, and this book proves it. * Voice Literary Supplement * The fiercely independent-minded Hitchens provides reams of fuel for intellectual conflagration, couched in the luxurious excess of humour ... progressive journalism as it was meant to be. * The Nation * The test of this kind of book is for the reader to be able to open it anywhere and be drawn into the argument; it's a test that Hitchens passes time and time again ... . He can be devilishly funny, but he is also capable of writing with acid seriousness. * Independent on Sunday * Read more...
