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Unhitched : the trial of Christopher Hitchens / Richard Seymour.

Title
Unhitched : the trial of Christopher Hitchens / Richard Seymour.
Author
Seymour, Richard, 1977-
Publication
London : Verso, 2012.

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Description
xxvi, 134 pages; 20 cm.
Summary
Irascible and forthright, Christopher Hitchens stood out as a man determined to do just that. In his younger years, a career-minded socialist, he emerged from the smoke of 9/11 a neoconservative "Marxist," an advocate of Americaʹs invasion of Iraq filled with passionate intensity. Throughout his life, he played the role of universal gadfly, whose commitment to the truth transcended the party line as well as received wisdom. But how much of this was imposture? In this highly critical study, Richard Seymour casts a cold eye over the career of the "Hitch" to uncover an intellectual trajectory determined by expediency and a fetish for power. -- Publisher description.
Series Statement
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Uniform Title
Counterblasts (Verso (Firm : London, England))
Alternative Title
Trial of Christopher Hitchens
Subject
  • Hitchens, Christopher
  • Hitchens, Christopher > Political and social views
  • Right and left (Political science) > United States
  • Intellectuals > United States > Biography
  • Journalists > United States > Biography
  • Political activists > United States > Biography
  • British Americans > Biography
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • Biographies
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Prologue: Predictable as Hell -- Christopher Hitchens in Theory and Practice -- English Questions, from Orwell to Thatcher -- Guilty as Sin : Theophobia, from Rushdie to the War on Terror -- The Englishman Abroad and the Road to Empire -- Conclusion: Twenty-Twenty Blindfold.
ISBN
  • 9781844679904 (paperback : alkaline paper)
  • 184467990X (paperback : alkaline paper)
  • 9781844679911 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2012039467
OCLC
783161455
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library