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Introduction xv All American Gods of Our Fathers: The United States of Enlightenment 3 The Private Jefferson 8 Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates 12 Benjamin Franklin: Free and Easy 21 John Brown: The Man Who Ended Slavery 28 Abraham Lincoln: Misery's Child 34 Mark Twain: American Radical 40 Upton Sinclair: A Capitalist Primer 47 JFK: In Sickness and by Stealth 54 Saul Bellow: The Great Assimilator 62 Vladimir Nabokov: Hurricane Lolita 70 John Updike, Part One: No Way 78 John Updike, Part Two: Mr. Geniality 85 Vidal Loco 89 America the Banana Republic 94 An Anglosphere Future 99 Political Animals 108 Old Enough to Die 117 In Defense of Foxhole Atheists 124 In Search of the Washington Novel 131 Eclectic Affinities Isaac Newton: Flaws of Gravity 139 The Men Who Made England: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall 146 Edmund Burke: Reactionary Prophet 152 Samuel Johnson: Demons and Dictionaries 165 Gustave Flaubert: I'm with Stupide 171 The Dark Side of Dickens 175 Marx's Journalism: The Grub Street Years 180 Rebecca West: Things Worth Fighting For 191 Ezra Pound: A Revolutionary Simpleton 222 On Animal Farm 228 Jessica Mitford's Poison Pen 237 W. Somerset Maugham: Poor Old Willie 242 Evelyn Waugh: The Permanent Adolescent 250 P. G. Wodehouse: The Honorable Schoolboy 265 Anthony Powell: An Omnivorous Curiosity 276 John Buchan: Spy Thrillers Father 290 Graham Greene: I'll Be Damned 297 Death from a Salesman: Graham Greene's Bottled Ontology 308 Loving Philip Larkin 323 Stephen Spender: A Nice Bloody Fool 332 Edward Upward: The Captive Mind 340 C. L. R. James: Mid Off Not Right On 347 J. G. Ballard: The Catastrophist 353 Fraser's Flashman: Scoundrel Time 358 Fleet Street's Finest: From Waugh to Frayn 365 Saki: Where the Wild Things Are 375 Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived 380 Amusements, Annoyances, and Disappointments Why Women Aren't Funny 389 Stieg Larsson: The Author Who Played with Fire 397 As American as Apple Pie 403 So Many Men's Rooms, So Little Time 411 The New Commandments 414 In Your Face 423 Wine Drinkers of the World, Unite 426 Charles, Prince of Piffle 429 Offshore Accounts Afghanistan's Dangerous Bet 435 First, Silence the Whistle-Blower 445 Believe Me, It's Torture 448 Iran's Waiting Game 455 Long Live Democratic Seismology 467 Benazir Bhutto: Daughter of Destiny 471 From Abbottabad to Worse 474 The Perils of Partition 480 Algeria: A French Quarrel 493 The Case of Orientalism 498 Edward Said: Where the Twain Should Have Met 504 The Swastika and the Cedar 513 Holiday in Iraq 519 Tunisia: At the Desert's Edge 526 What Happened to the Suicide Bombers or Jerusalem? 532 Childhood's End: An African Nightmare 535 The Vietnam Syndrome 541 Once Upon a Time in Germany 548 Worse Than Nineteen Eighty-four 553 North Korea: A Nation of Racist Dwarves 556 The Eighteenth Brumaire of the Castro Dynasty 559 Hugo Boss 563 Is the Euro Doomed? 566 Overstating Jewish Power 569 The Case for Humanitarian Intervention 573 Legacies of Totalitarianism Victor Serge: Pictures from an Inquisition 585 Andre Malraux: One Man's Fate 595 Arthur Koestler: The Zealot 602 Isabel Allende: Chile Redux 607 The Persian Version 617 Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight 625 Imagining Hitler 640 Victor Klemperer: Survivor 652 A War Worth Fighting 661 Just Give Peace a Chance? 669 W G. Sebald: Requiem for Germany 673 Words' Worth When the King Saved God 687 Let Them Eat Pork Rinds 697 Stand Up for Denmark! 704 Eschew the Taboo 709 She's No Fundamentalist 712 Burned Out 716 Easter Charade 719 Don't Mince Words 722 History and Mystery 726 Words Matter 730 This Was Not Looting 733 This Other L-Word 736 The You Decade 739 Suck It Up 742 A Very, Very Dirty Word 745 Prisoner of Shelves 748 Acknowledgments 751 Index 753
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"All first-rate criticism first defines what we are confronting," the late, great jazz critic Whitney Balliett once wrote. By that measure, the essays of Christopher Hitchens are in the first tier. For nearly four decades, Hitchens has been telling us, in pitch-perfect prose, what we confront when we grapple with first principles-the principles of reason and tolerance and scepticism that define and inform the foundations of our civilization-principles that, to endure, must be defended anew by every generation. "A short list of the greatest living conversationalists in English," said The Economist , "would probably have to include Christopher Hitchens, Sir Patrick Leigh-Fermor, and Sir Tom Stoppard. Great brilliance, fantastic powers of recall, and quick wit are clearly valuable in sustaining conversation at these cosmic levels. Charm may be helpful, too." Hitchens – who staunchly declines all offers of knighthood-hereby invites you to take a seat at a democratic conversation, to be engaged, and to be reasoned with. His knowledge is formidable, an encyclopedic treasure, and yet one has the feeling, reading him, of hearing a person thinking out loud, following the inexorable logic of his thought, wherever it might lead, unafraid to expose fraudulence, denounce injustice, and excoriate hypocrisy. Legions of readers, admirers and detractors alike, have learned to read Hitchens with something approaching awe at his felicity of language, the oxygen in every sentence, the enviable wit and his readiness, even eagerness, to fight a foe or mount the ramparts. Here, he supplies fresh perceptions of such figures as varied as Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, Rebecca West, George Orwell, J.G. Ballard, and Philip Larkin are matched in brilliance by his pungent discussions and intrepid observations, gathered from a lifetime of travelling and reporting from such destinations as Iran, China, and Pakistan. Hitchens's directness, elegance, lightly carried erudition, critical and psychological insight, humour, and sympathy-applied as they are here to a dazzling variety of subjects-all set a standard for the essayist that has rarely been matched in our time. What emerges from this indispensable volume is an intellectual self-portrait of a writer with an exemplary steadiness of purpose and a love affair with the delights and seductions of the English language, a man anchored in a profound and humane vision of the human longing for reason and justice.
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