Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays - Softcover

Hitchens, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843544520 ISBN 13: 9781843544524

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2006

Synopsis

In this sweeping collection of essays, reportage and criticism, Hitchens' polemical talents at their most fearsome.

"I did not, I wish to state, become a journalist because there was no other 'profession' that would have me. I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information."

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 this title

Review:

Dazzling, and often very moving, writing from the 1990s by 'one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time Source: Observer

An exceptional political polemicist Source: Prospect

Hitchens is just too damn good. Source: New Statesman

From the Author:

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a columnist for Slate. He was the author of numerous books, including works on Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, George Orwell, Mother Teresa, Henry Kissinger and Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as his international bestseller and National Book Award nominee, god Is Not Great. His memoir, Hitch-22, was nominated for the Orwell Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1843544520
• ISBN 13: 9781843544524
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496