Christopher Hitchens : what he got right, how he went wrong, and why he still matters
(2021)
By:
Burgis, Ben
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : John Hunt Publishing, 2021
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781789047462 (electronic bk.) MWT14656677, 1789047463 (electronic bk.) 14656677
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
While his post-9/11 turn to the right has defined Christopher Hitchens for the last two decades, we may now be in a position to rehabilitate his long pre-9/11 career as a left-wing polemicist. Burgis reminds readers about what was best in Hitchens's writings and helps us gain a better understanding of how someone whose whole political life was animated by the values of the socialist left could have ended up holding grotesque positions on Iraq and the War on Terror. Burgis' book makes a case for the enduring importance of engaging with Hitchens' complicated legacy
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