Book description
'As soon as we abandon our own reason', wrote Bertrand Russell,
'and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our
troubles.' For over forty years, Christopher Hitchens has proclaimed
truth where others have spun falsehood and written, with passionate
commitment, on matters that others fear to broach. This volume of
essays encompasses Hitchens' writing over the past decade on politics,
literature and religion. In Arguably Hitchens explores a wide range of
cultural and political issues, past and present. His fresh perceptions
of figures as diverse as Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, Rebecca West and
Philip Larkin are matched in brilliance by his acerbic discussions and
intrepid observations, gathered over a lifetime of travelling and
reporting from destinations such as Iran, China and Pakistan.
Hitchens' life has above all else been one of defiance and wit,
courage and humility: in an age of digital punditry and twenty-four
hour hucksterism, he has been a voice of reason amid the clamour,
making an indelible mark on politics and literature on both sides of
the Atlantic. Arguably is the indispensible companion to the
Anglosphere's pre-eminent political writer.
Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was a contributing editor to Vanity
Fair and a regular contributor to the New York times Book Review and
Slate. He is the author of numerous books, including works on Thomas
Jefferson, Thomas Paine, George Orwell, Henry Kissinger and Bill and
Hillary Clinton, as well as his international bestseller and National
Book Award nominee, god Is Not Great.
