NONFICTION
Released: June 2, 2005
"A politician driven by self-interest? The very thought in the matter of the master of Monticello tells us that we live in revisionist times. Hitchens's slender study complements several lives of Jefferson while displacing none, and it's well worth reading."
A lucid, gently critical view of the great president and empire-builder and most literate of politicians.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2005
"A well-turned collection with scarcely a false note. A pleasure for Hitchens's many fans, and certainly no comfort for his enemies."
A nicely provocative, if disparate mix of field notes, book reviews, essays, and appreciations.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2002
"Good bedside reading, with pieces that are short, digestible, and sometimes soporific."
A motley collection that illustrates both the obsessions and the daffiness of Right and Left during the '90s.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2002
"Admirers of Hitchens should find no fault with this appreciation, which is of an interesting piece with pal Martin Amis's Koba the Dread (p. 627). Neither should admirers of Orwell."
Vanity Fair columnist Hitchens (
Letters to a Young Contrarian, 2001, etc.), late of the English New Left, provides reassurance for those who've been staying up nights wondering whether George Orwell has any relevance in the post–Cold War world.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 22, 2001
"A damp squib from someone who ought to know better."
Pretty lame musings that capture but little of
Nation columnist Hitchens's not inconsiderable wit--and even less of his iconoclasm.
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