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A hitch in time : reflections ready for reconsideration / Christopher Hitchens.
"Christopher Hitchens was invariably a star writer everywhere he wrote, and the same was true of the London Review of Books, to which he contributed sixty pieces over two decades. Anthologised here for the first time, this selection of his finest LRB reviews, diaries and essays (along with a smattering of ferocious letters) finds Hitchens at his very best. Familiar betes noires-Kennedy, Nixon, Kissinger, Clinton-rub shoulders with lesser-known preoccupations: P.G. Wodehouse, Princess Margaret and, magisterially, Isaiah Berlin. Here is Hitchens on the (first) Gulf War and the 'Salman Rushdie Acid Test', on being spanked by Mrs Thatcher in the House of Lords and taking his son to the Oscars, on America's homegrown Nazis and 'Acts of Violence in Grosvenor Square' in 1968. Edited by the London Review of Books, with an introduction by James Wolcott, this collection recaptures, ten years after his death, 'a Hitch in time': barnstorming, cauterising, but ultimately uncontainable"--Publisher's description.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781538757659 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xvi, 312 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Twelve, 2024.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword by James Wolcott -- The wrong stuff : on Tom Wolfe, 1983 -- Diary : operation Desert Storm, 1991 -- Oh Lionel! On P.G. Wodehouse, 1992 -- Mary, Mary : on J. Edgar Hoover, 1993 -- Say what you will about Harold : on Harold Wilson, 1993 -- Diary : the Salman Rushdie acid test, 1994 -- Diary : spanking, 1994 -- Who runs Britain? Police espionage, 1994 -- Lucky Kim : on Kim Philby, 1995 -- Diary : at the Oscars, 1995 -- Look over your shoulder : the Oklahoma bombing, 1995 -- Letters : richard Cummings, Christopher Hitchens -- After-time : on Gore Vidal, 1995 -- A hard dog to keep on the porch : on Bill Clinton, 1996 -- The trouble with HRH : on Princess Margaret, 1997 -- Brief shining moments : kennedy and Nixon, 1998 -- Letters : arthur Schlesinger Jr., Christopher Hitchens, Mervyn Jones -- Acts of violence in Grosvenor Square : on 1968, 1998 -- Diary : the "Almanach de Gotha," 1998 -- Moderation or death : on Isaiah Berlin, 1998 -- Letters : roger Scruton, Francis Wheen, Mark Lilly, Christopher Hitchens -- What a lot of parties : on Diana Mosley, 1999 -- 11 September 1973. Pinochet and Britain, 2002. |
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| Subject: | Hitchens, Christopher. Hitchens, Christopher > Correspondence. Hitchens, Christopher > Diaries. Books > Reviews. Journalism. Literature > History and criticism. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Essays. Personal narratives. |
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