Arguably

"'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 spans Hitchens' whole career and encompasses his writing on politics, literature and religion. It is the most comprehensive collection of the work of the finest English essayist since Orwell. Arguably contains all aspects of Hitchens' wide repertoire as journalist, polemicist and critic. Divided into sections such as: 'All American', 'Eclectic Affinities' and 'Foreign Quarrels', Hitchens unfolds his views on subjects ranging from Clinton to Kissinger; Powell to Proust. 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 his indelible and brilliant mark on politics and literature on both sides of the Atlantic. While his many books exist as a formidable legacy, it is his mastery of short-form journalism and criticism that constitute his lasting claim to greatness. Arguably is a unique anthology and the indispensible companion to the Anglosphere's pre-eminent political writer."

ISBN 085789255X   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780857892553 (What's this?)   Pages 800 Publisher Atlantic Books   Published in London Imprint Atlantic Books   Height (mm) 234 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 156 Publication date 01 Oct 2011   Academic level General DEWEY 824.914

"Whether on the invasion of Iraq or the merits of Vladimir Nabokov's fiction, master controversialist Hitchens has an informed opinion. . . . Vintage Hitchens. Argumentative and sometimes just barely civil -- another worthy collection from this most inquiring of inquirers." -- "Kirkus Reviews" (starred)"These 750 pages of bright, witty, nearly always charged reportage and argument are business as usual for one of the most lucid and humane voices of our age. . . . Purposeful and well told. . . . Here are more than 700 pages of a life lived fully through meaningful work." -- Charles Foran, "Globe and Mail"

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