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Christopher Hitchens was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair,Slate, and the Atlantic, and the author of numerous books, including works on Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and George Orwell. He also wrote the international bestsellers god Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Hitch-22: A Memoir, and Arguably. He died in December 2011. Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an English-American intellectual, polemicist, and socio-political critic, who expressed himself as an author, orator, essayist and columnist.He wrote, co-wrote, edited or co-edited over 30 books, including five of essays on culture, politics and literature.Having contributed to several publications, he is broadly regarded as.

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'Starred Review. Few authors can rile as easily as Hitchens does, but even his detractors might find it difficult to put down a book so witty, so piercing, so spoiling for a fight. He makes you want to be as good a reader as he is a writer.' - Booklist
'Not only is the writing original and flowing, but this memoir is brimming with political and cultural insights. A reader may disagree with Hitchens's take on the world, but his writing wins the day.' - Library Journal
'Starred Review. Hitchens ... offers an engrossing account of his lives as a British Navy brat, a socialist activist and a leading essayist and intellectual of our time ... Revealing and riveting.' - Kirkus Reviews

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