A hitch in time : reflections ready for reconsideration

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"Christopher Hitchens was invariably a star writer everywhere he wrote, and the same was true of the London Review of Books, to which he contributed sixty pieces over two decades. Anthologised here for the first time, this selection of his finest LRB reviews, diaries and essays (along with a smattering of ferocious letters) finds Hitchens at his very best. Familiar betes noires-Kennedy, Nixon, Kissinger, Clinton-rub shoulders with lesser-known pr...

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ISBN:

9781838956004
9781538757659

Edition:

First U.S. edition

Description:

xvi, 312 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

London review of books

Notes:

Includes index

Contents:

Foreword by James Wolcott
The wrong stuff : on Tom Wolfe, 1983
Diary : operation Desert Storm, 1991
Oh Lionel! On P.G. Wodehouse, 1992
Mary, Mary : on J. Edgar Hoover, 1993
Say what you will about Harold : on Harold Wilson, 1993
Diary : the Salman Rushdie acid test, 1994
Diary : spanking, 1994
Who runs Britain? Police espionage, 1994
Lucky Kim : on Kim Philby, 1995
Diary : at the Oscars, 1995
Look over your shoulder : the Oklahoma bombing, 1995
Letters : richard Cummings, Christopher Hitchens
After-time : on Gore Vidal, 1995
A hard dog to keep on the porch : on Bill Clinton, 1996
The trouble with HRH : on Princess Margaret, 1997
Brief shining moments : kennedy and Nixon, 1998
Letters : arthur Schlesinger Jr., Christopher Hitchens, Mervyn Jones
Acts of violence in Grosvenor Square : on 1968, 1998
Diary : the "Almanach de Gotha," 1998
Moderation or death : on Isaiah Berlin, 1998
Letters : roger Scruton, Francis Wheen, Mark Lilly, Christopher Hitchens
What a lot of parties : on Diana Mosley, 1999
11 September 1973. Pinochet and Britain, 2002

LCCN:

2021385213

Control Number:

3254533

Other Authors:

Wolcott, James, 1952- writer of introduction

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