Love, Poverty and War - Journeys and Essays

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.

About the author

Christopher Hitchens is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and Visiting Professor in liberal studies at the New School in New York. He was named one of the world's 'Top 100 Public Intellectuals' by Foreign Policy and Prospect. His books include Love, Poverty & War and Blood, Class & Empire. Thomas Paine's Rights of Man and God Is Not Great were published by Atlantic Books.

Summary

Ten years since the death of the world-renowned and controversial intellectual, this stylish edition is one of twelve commemorating Christopher Hitchens' most wry and provocative works.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Hitchens
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2021
• EAN: 9781838952341
• ISBN: 978-1-83895-234-1
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 343 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; History, RELIGION / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, HISTORY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Commentary & Opinion, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, RELIGION / Atheism, Religion & politics, Politics and government, Literary essays, Political science and theory, Religion and beliefs, Diaries, letters and journals, Agnosticism and atheism