For the sake of argument : essays and minority reports, Christopher Hitchens

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For the sake of argument : essays and minority reports, Christopher Hitchens

Title remainder

essays and minority reports

Statement of responsibility

Christopher Hitchens

Instantiates

• For the sake of argument : essays and minority reports

Publication

• London | New York, Verso, 1993

Copyright

• ♭1993
• ©1993

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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volume

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• nc

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

Contents

• Where were you standing? -- On the imagination of conspiracy -- Contempt for the little colony -- The state within the state -- Voting in the passive voice -- The hate that dared not speak its name -- A pundit who need never dine alone -- Hard on the houseboy -- New Orleans in a brown shirt -- Rioting in Mount Pleasant -- Billionaire populism -- The clemency of Clinton -- Clinton as Rhodesian -- Bill's Bills in Miami -- Realpolitik in the Gulf : a game gone tilt -- Churchillian delusions -- No end of a lesson -- Befriending the Kurds -- Arise, Sir Norman -- Jewish in Damascus -- Songs fit for heroes -- Hating Sweden -- Squeezing Costa Rica -- The saviour -- Tio Sam -- The autumn of the patriarch -- Third thoughts -- Cretinismo Eroico -- The twilight of Panzerkommunismus -- Police mentality -- On the road to Timisoara -- Bricks in the wall -- The free market cargo cult -- How neo-conservatives perish -- Appointment in Sarajevo -- 'Society' and its enemies -- Credibility politics : Sado-monetarist economics -- Union jackshirt : Ingham's concervative chic -- Neil Kinnock : defeat without honour -- Bribing and twisting
• (Cont'd) How's the vampire? -- Charlie's angel -- Unhappy families -- Princess of dysfunction -- New York intellectuals and the prophet outcast -- Clubland intellectuals -- The 'We' fallacy -- Shouting anarchy -- Politically correct -- Friend of promise -- Booze and fags -- Nixon : maestro of resentment -- Kissinger : a touch of evil -- Berlin's mandate for Palestine -- Ghoul of Calcutta -- The life of Johnson -- A grave disappointment all around -- Too big for his boot -- P.J. O'Rourke : not funny enough -- Not funny enough (2) -- Warhol in one dimension -- Siding with Rushdie -- Goya's radical pessimism -- Degenerate art -- James Baldwin : humanity first -- Updike on the make -- P.G. Wodehouse in love, poverty and war -- Greene : where the shadow falls -- Kazuo Ishiguro -- Victor Serge -- C.L.R. James -- In defence of Daniel Deronda

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25 cm

Extent

353 pages

Isbn

9780860914358

Lccn

93007437

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

Record ID

1/327570

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• ocm28338759
• OCoLC