CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS (1949-2011) was an Anglo-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious and literary critic, social critic, and journalist. A staple of public discourse, his confrontational style of debate made him both a lauded intellectual and a controversial public figure.
Having long described himself as a social democrat, a Marxist, and an anti-totalitarian, his writings include blistering critiques of public figures such as Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger, Mother Teresa and Diana, Princess of Wales. He was unrelenting in his support for the Palestinian cause and his excoriation of America's projections of power in Asia and Latin America. He was a polemicist rather than an analyst or political thinker -- his headteacher at the Leys school in Cambridge presciently forecast a future as a pamphleteer -- and, like all the best polemicists, brought to his work outstanding skills of reporting and observation.
Hitchens began to break with the established political left after what he called the "tepid reaction" of the Western left to the "Satanic Verses" controversy, followed by the left's embrace of Bill Clinton and the antiwar movement's opposition to NATO intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s. His support of the Iraq War separated him even further. Long friendships with the aristocracy of the Anglo-American left -- Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Alexander Cockburn, Edward Said -- ended in harsh exchanges.
As an antitheist he regarded the concept of a god or supreme being as a totalitarian belief that impedes individual freedom. He argued that free expression and scientific discovery should replace religion as a means of informing ethics and defining codes of conduct for human civilization. The dictum "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence" has become known as Hitchens's razor.
The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise noted:
* And Yet: Essays (Simon & Schuster, 2015)
* Arguably: Essays (Signal, 2011)
* Atheist Manifesto, The [2nd edition] (Bowker, 2016)
* Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship (Atlantic, 2004)
* Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left (NYU, 2008). Edited by Simon Cottee and Thomas Cushman. -- PDF
* Enemy, The (Amazon, 2011)
* For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports (Atlantic, 2014) -- ePUB + PDF
* God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Twelve / M&S, 2007) -- ePUB + PDF
* Hitch-22: A Memoir (Twelve, 2010 / Allen & Unwin, 2011) -- ePUB + PDF
* Hitchens vs. Blair: The Monk Debate on Religion (House of Anansi, 2011). Edited by Rudyard Griffiths.
* Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger (FSG, 1989) -- PDF
* Is Christianity Good for the World: A Debate (Canon, 2008)
* Last Interview & Other Conversations (Melville House, 2017)
* Letters to a Young Contrarian (Basic Books, 2005)
* Long Live Hitch [God Is Not Great / Hitch 22 / Arguably] (Atlantic, 2012)
* Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays (Nation, 2011)
* Missionary Position, The: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Verso, 1995 / Signal, 2012) -- ePUB + PDF
* Monarchy, The: A Critique of Britain’s Favourite Fetish (Vintage, 2012)
* Mortality (Allen & Unwin, 2012)
* No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton (Twelve, 2012 / Allen & Unwin, 2012) -- ePUB + PDF
* Parthenon Marbles, The: Case for Reunification (Verso, 2008)
* Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer (Da Capo, 2007) -- ePUB + PDF
* Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports (Atlantic, 2014) -- ePUB + PDF
* Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism (Da Capo, 2011). Edited by Windsor Mann.
* Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (HarperCollins, 2005) -- ePUB + PDF
* Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man": A Biography (Grove, 2006)
* Trial of Henry Kissinger, The (Allen & Unwin, 2012)
* Triumvirate of Rationalism: Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, George Orwell (Clearfield, 2016)
* Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere (Atlantic, 2014)
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