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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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Abstract:
These essays explore the global turmoil of the last few years, ranging from political assassination in America to the end of Stalinism in Prague. A "rogue's gallery" provides portraits of Henry Kissinger, Mother Teresa, Paul Johnson and P.J. O'Rourke.
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