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The trial of Henry Kissinger
In this incendiary book, Hitchens takes the floor as prosecuting counsel and mounts a devastating indictment of Henry Kissinger, whose ambitions and ruthlessness have directly resulted in both individual murders and widespread, indiscriminate slaughter.
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Love, poverty, and war : journeys and essays
Showcases America's leading polemicist's 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 or the Dalai Lama.
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توماس جيفرسون وإعلان استقلال أمريكا
\"توماس جيفرسون وإعلان استقلال أمريكا\" في هذه السيرة الفريدة من نوعها لحياة الرئيس الأمريكي توماس جيفرسون ونجح الكاتب المتميز كريستوفر هيتشنز في أن يقدم لنا قراءة جديدة تماما ومثيرة للفكر لشخصية أحد آباء أمريكا المؤسسين فقد نجح هيتشنز في هذا الكتاب في بعث الحياة من جديد في شخصية جيفرسون باعتباره الرجل المناسب لعصره وأيضا باعتباره شخصية رمزية تتخطى ذلك العصر وذلك من خلال وضعه في إطار حركة التطور الأمريكي وتتبع تراثه خلال المائتي عام الماضية.
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Letters to a Young Contrarian
In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents. Who better to speak to that person who finds him or herself in a contrarian position than Hitchens, who has made a career of disagreeing in profound and entertaining ways.This book explores the entire range of \"contrary positions\"-from noble dissident to gratuitous pain in the butt. In an age of overly polite debate bending over backward to reach a happy consensus within an increasingly centrist political dialogue, Hitchens pointedly pitches himself in contrast. He bemoans the loss of the skills of dialectical thinking evident in contemporary society. He understands the importance of disagreement-to personal integrity, to informed discussion, to true progress-heck, to democracy itself. Epigrammatic, spunky, witty, in your face, timeless and timely, this book is everything you would expect from a mentoring contrarian.
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Disaster the greater for a change of heart; Bhutto slain - Marked by destiny
THE sternest critic of Benazir Bhutto could not have denied that she possessed an extraordinary degree of physical courage.
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Now, Who Will Speak for Rushdie?
I understand that petition-gatherers have had some difficulty in rounding up the usual literary lions. (Contrast this reticence with the courage of Naguib Mahfouz, the Egyptian Nobel laureate, who yesterday roundly charged Khomeini with ''intellectual terrorism.'') I noticed that Viking Penguin has insisted that it did not mean to be offensive. I observed that the normally vociferous ''anti-terrorist'' lobby is unusually cautious in its choice of terms, and that the spokesmen for the godly are uncharacteristically silent. It seems that many respectable people are prepared to be more critical of a novel written by a private individual than they are about a murder threat issued so boldly by a man with state power. In the responses of a liberal society to this direct affront, there has been altogether too much about the offended susceptibilities of the religious and altogether too little about the absolute right of free expression and free inquiry. One can and must be ''absolute'' about these. Unlike other absolutisms, they guarantee rather than abridge the rights of all - Khomeini included - to be heard and debated. [Salman Rushdie], it ought to be remembered, has been an energetic defender of the rights of Asian and Muslim minorities in a nominally Christian England. Those who would legislate our thoughts are impervious to the ridicule they attract for their frenzy to ban a book they have not read. For them, the whole point is that nobody should read ''unclean'' prose or poetry or philosophy. The processes of reason, the wit of Voltaire about the distinction between disagreement and suppression, are a kind of baffling non-sequitur to such minds.
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WHY BLAME GREECE
Words hurt, too, of course. When a bomb exploded this winter in a bar frequented by United States servicemen in Athens, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger told Congress that this atrocity was the result of Prime Minister [Andreas Papandreou]'s rhetoric. A moment's thought, at a time when American installations from Portugal to West Germany were being bombed, would have shown this to be an absurd and dangerous remark. But a moment's thought is precisely what, when it comes to Greece, the Reagan team has no time for. Under previous governments, Greece was often turbulent in its relations with the United States and the Western alliance. Former Prime Minister and President Constantine Karamanlis, doyen of the conservatives, moved to distance Greece from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, to make openings to the Middle East and restore relations with the Warsaw Pact. It was during his tenure, also, that an Israeli aircraft was hijacked from Athens airport to Entebbe, Uganda.
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Ancient Gonzo Wisdom
A collection of outrageous and brilliant interviews with the author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, selected and edited by his widow, Anita Thompson.
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Machinery of Death
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
David R. Dow is George Butler Research Professor of Law at the University of Houston. Since 1988, he has represented more than twenty-five death row inmates. Mark Dow is a Brooklyn based freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Progressive , The Miami Herald , The Boston Herald , and The Texas Observer . Christopher Hitchens is a best-selling author and a regular columnist for The Nation and Vanity Fair .
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