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Love, Poverty, and War

Journeys and Essays

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Love, Poverty, and War

By: Christopher Hitchens
Narrated by: Anthony May
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"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 '90s as a "darling of the left" but has become more of an "unaffiliated radical" whose targets include those on the "left", whom 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.

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I particularly enjoyed the essays in the second half of this book. The first 10 or so chapters I found pretty boring and plodding.

Badly arranged.

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An excellent collection of essays covering topics from the first Gulf war to the first couple of years post 9/11. Hitch tells it like it is, with wit and a level of Iconoclastic critique, he cuts through the bullshit and lays bare the hypocrisy of the some of the left and rights biggest heroes.

Long live the Hitch

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Great listen huge Hitchens fan, it's so sad to still not have him with us, gone but never forgotten.

Great

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Christopher Hitchens at his best a brilliant collection which shows why he is missed by those who followed him and his work on so many diverse subjects.

Hitchens the Great

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This book covers so many actual area, it is extremely informative and a excellent listen, a very good purchase.

very engaging, and back with information.

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