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Arguably: Selected Essays
by Christopher Hitchens
Reading Hitch is and always will be an education. In history, politics, diplomacy, religion, philosophy, rhetoric, writing and reading itself. Hitch was a polymath, but anyone who has witnessed him debating will know that all of his knowledge always appeared to be immediately available to him.
This collection of essays, his fifth, was released just after he died in 2011. It includes analyses of events in world history and politics, literature and book reviews, and some frivolous pieces which showcase his humour as well as his wit.
Hitch is particularly educational on US history and that of German and eastern European machinations during and after the world wars. And middle eastern politics...and... Being specific seems almost pointless although politics and religion are probably what he was best known for.
Some of these essays were written to commentate on contemporaneous events, but read just as well a decade or two afterwards as they would have then. Sharp, fresh and ever fearless, no one person has ever fully replaced him.
This collection of essays, his fifth, was released just after he died in 2011. It includes analyses of events in world history and politics, literature and book reviews, and some frivolous pieces which showcase his humour as well as his wit.
Hitch is particularly educational on US history and that of German and eastern European machinations during and after the world wars. And middle eastern politics...and... Being specific seems almost pointless although politics and religion are probably what he was best known for.
Some of these essays were written to commentate on contemporaneous events, but read just as well a decade or two afterwards as they would have then. Sharp, fresh and ever fearless, no one person has ever fully replaced him.