Christopher Hitchens, Author . Basic $22 (141p) ISBN 978-0-465-03032-3
Hitchens, a columnist for the Nation
and Vanity Fair,
and author, most recently, of The Trial of Henry Kissinger, has made a career of disagreement and dissent, of being the thorn in search of a side. "Only an open conflict of ideas and...
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Christopher Hitchens. Hachette/Twelve, $22.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4555-0275-2
Diagnosed with the esophageal cancer to which he eventually succumbed in December 2011, cultural critic Hitchens found himself a finalist in the race of life, and in his typically unflinching and bold manner, he candidly shares his thoughts about...
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Christopher Hitchens, Author Hill & Wang $19.95 (357p) ISBN 978-0-8090-7867-7
Hitchens has written a great deal of bracing good sense on politics and literature in the past decade or so, and much of it has been collected between the covers of this well-packed book. Since these pieces originally appeared in journals as wide-ran
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Christopher Hitchens, Author HarperCollins Publishers $21.95 (188p) ISBN 978-0-06-059896-9
In this brief yet dense biography, the newest in HarperCollins's Eminent Lives series, Hitchens (A Long Short War, etc.) proposes that Jefferson ""designed America"" when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, establishing ""the concept of human...
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Christopher Hitchens, Author Verso $17.95 (98p) ISBN 978-1-85984-054-2
An extended, nun-busting polemic from the The Nation columnist. (Apr.)
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Christopher Hitchens, Author Verso $60 (368p) ISBN 978-0-86091-435-8
A political journalist of the first rank, Hitchens excoriates a Washington elite that evinces contempt for citizens and voters. He gauges the vast damage the CIA has done to American democracy, faults George Bush for his years of coddling Saddam...
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Christopher Hitchens, Author . Atlantic Monthly $19.95 (158p) ISBN 978-0-87113-955-9
Thomas Paine’s critique of monarchy and introduction of the concept of human rights influenced both the French and the American revolutions, argues Vanity Fair
contributor and bestselling author Hitchens (God Is Not Great
) in this incisive...
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Christopher Hitchens, Author . Twelve $24.99 (307p) ISBN 978-0-446-57980-3
Hitchens, one of our great political pugilists, delivers the best of the recent rash of atheist manifestos. The same contrarian spirit that makes him delightful reading as a political commentator, even (or especially) when he's completely wrong,
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Christopher Hitchens, Author . Nation $16.95 (475p) ISBN 978-1-56025-580-2
Branded an apostate by the left for his post-9/11 embrace of the U.S.'s war on terror, former Nation
columnist Hitchens reprints some of the offending pieces, along with lighter fare. The title names the book's three sections. "Love"
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Christopher Hitchens, Author . Basic $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-465-03049-1
Vanity Fair
and Nation
contributor Hitchens passionately defends a great writer from attacks by both right and left, though he also refutes those fans who proclaim his sainthood. George Orwell (1903–1950), a socialist who abhorred all forms...
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Christopher Hitchens, Author . Verso $22 (160p) ISBN 978-1-85984-631-5
The arrest of Augusto Pinochet signaled a significant shift in enforcing international law, noticed by Henry Kissinger if not others. Vanity Fair columnist Hitchens (No One Left to Lie To, etc.), a self-described "political opponent of Henry...
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Christopher Hitchens, read by Simon Prebble. Hachette Audio, unabridged, 24 CDs, 28.5 hrs., $34.98 ISBN 978-1-61113-906-8
How does one possibly narrate the essays of Christopher Hitchens while capturing the author’s furious—and perhaps occasionally misguided—intensity and vigor? For this capacious collection of Hitchens’s essays, narrator Simon Prebble wisely avoids...
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Christopher Hitchens, read by Simon Prebble. Hachette Audio, unabridged, five CDs, 6.25 hrs., $21.98 ISBN 978-1-61969-377-7
The explosive treatise from recently deceased journalist, author, and provocateur Hitchens—originally published in 2001 and then again in 2012—offers a no-holds-barred indictment of veteran Washington diplomat and power broker Henry Kissinger for a...
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Christopher Hitchens, read by Simon Prebble. Hachette Audio, unabridged, two CDs, 2 hrs., $22.98 ISBN 978-1-61969-188-9
In June 2010, journalist and author Christopher Hitchens was touring the U.S. to promote his memoir Hitch-22 when he suffered from the first symptoms of what would ultimately be diagnosed as esophageal cancer. Until his death in December 2011,...
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Christopher Hitchens, Author, Robert Browning, With, Graham Binns, With Hill & Wang $19.95 (137p) ISBN 978-0-8090-4189-3
When Thomas Bruce, seventh earl of Elgin and British ambassador to the Ottoman empire, removed the Parthenon's sculptured friezes to the British Museum, he ignited a controversy that has not abated in a century and a half. Was Elgin a...
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Michael Korda, Author, Paul Johnson, Author, Christopher Hitchens, Author , read by Sam Tsoutsouvas. Harper Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-087875-7
Tsoutsouvas offers a fitting voice for this collection of minibiographies of American presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Ulysses S. Grant. His narration is professorial without feeling remote, and his precise inflections and seasoned
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Christopher Hitchens. Simon & Schuster, $30 (560p) ISBN 978-1-4767-7206-6
Even several years removed from Hitchens's death in 2011, the provocative, probing, and prolific writer remains one of this era's most mesmerizing and combative social commentators and public intellectuals, as this collection vividly reminds readers.
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Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett. Random House, $20 (128p) ISBN 978-0-525-51195-3
This meandering, unmoderated discussion among Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, and Dennett, a group dubbed the New Atheists, presents their unique positions in provocative but underdeveloped arguments. Composed mainly of transcriptions of a conversation...
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Christopher Hitchens. Twelve, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5387-5765-9
This acerbic posthumous anthology from cultural critic Hitchens (And Yet...) brings together previously uncollected essays, book reviews, and letters originally published in the London Review of Books between 1983 and 2002. Hitchens’s caustic...
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