Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011)
Autor(a) de God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
About the Author
Christopher Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, England on April 13, 1949. He was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and wrote for numerous other publications throughout his lifetime. He was the author of numerous books including No One Left to Lie To, For the Sake of Argument, Prepared for the mostrar mais Worst, God Is Not Great, Hitch-22: A Memoir, and Arguably. He died due to complication from esophageal cancer on December 15, 2011 at the age of 62. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Christopher Hitchens
The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism--The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens (2011) 240 exemplares
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question (1988) — Editor — 190 exemplares
Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) (2017) 50 exemplares
American Presidents Eminent Lives Boxed Set: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant (2005) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares
Hitch Attacks: "No One Left to Lie", "The Missionary Position", "The Trial of Henry Kissinger" (2012) 4 exemplares
Cristianismo e Bom para o Mundo?, O 2 exemplares
The Embarrassment of the Riches 1 exemplar
By Hitchens, Christopher God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Paperback - March 2008 1 exemplar
God Is Not Great, Hitch 22: A Memoir and Arguably 3 Books Collection Set By Christopher Hitchens - How Religion Poisons… (2017) 1 exemplar
'French lessons' in AFR, 27 Oct 2006 [review of Horne's 'A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962'] 1 exemplar
Why women aren't funny 1 exemplar
On the limits of self-improvement 1 exemplar
The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Volume 306, Number 2, September 2010 Israel Is Gettig Ready to Bomb Iran * Christopher… (2010) 1 exemplar
'Proust's Way: ... the acutest ear in Paris' in AFR, 27 Feb 2004 [review of 'Swann's Way'] 1 exemplar
Christopher Hitchens 1 exemplar
Greenspan Shrugged 1 exemplar
Talk Live-John Metzger 1 exemplar
une portée de chiens 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia (1941) — Introdução, algumas edições — 1,697 exemplares
Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 (2000) — Introdução, algumas edições — 1,067 exemplares
Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis (1983) — Introdução, algumas edições — 442 exemplares
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Contribuidor — 429 exemplares
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Ten Years of the Claremont Review of Books (2012) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
The Atlantic Monthly July / August 2011 (Feature) the Annual Ideas Issue, the Trouble with Good Parents, the Case for… (2011) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Harper's Magazine 1989 Oct. — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Hitchens, Christopher
- Nome legal
- Hitchens, Christopher Eric
- Data de nascimento
- 1949-04-13
- Data de falecimento
- 2011-12-15
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
UK (birth) - Local de nascimento
- Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Houston, Texas, USA
- Causa da morte
- Hitchens died from esophageal cancer.
- Locais de residência
- Washington, D.C., USA
Malta
England, UK - Educação
- The Leys School
University of Oxford (BA ∙ Balliol College ∙ 3rd class degree, Philosophy-Politics-Economics) - Ocupações
- journalist
social critic - Relações
- Hitchens, Peter (brother)
Amis, Martin (friend) - Organizações
- National Secular Society
International Socialism (journal)
Times Higher Education
New Statesman
The Nation
Evening Standard (mostrar todos 15)
Daily Express
Harper's Magazine
The Spectator
The Times Literary Supplement
New York Newsday
Vanity Fair
The Atlantic Monthly
Slate
The New School - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Lannan Literary Award (Nonfiction, 1991)
Richard Dawkins Award (2011)
LennonOno Grant for Peace (2012)
National Magazine Award for Columns (2007, 2011, 2012)
The Orwell Prize – Special Prize (2012)
Membros
Críticas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 78
- Also by
- 38
- Membros
- 26,657
- Popularidade
- #781
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 590
- ISBN
- 415
- Línguas
- 17
- Marcado como favorito
- 148
Concerning those who declined to criticize the fatwa against Salman Rushdie because of their purported multiculturalism: It is impossible to be sufficiently irritated by such people.
Of the Mormon church's International Genealogical Index: a classical piece of micro-megalomania where the monstrous scale of the effort dwarfs the essential pettiness of the enterprise.
Of antisemitism: A dead giveaway, in distinguishing the obsessive or morbid antisemite from the garden variety, is an inability to stay off the subject.
Concerning Sir Rhodes Boyson's comment that caning had done him no harm: Why do people invariably make this claim; usually before anyone has asked them?
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Problems with this collection included:
1. the sometimes eventual numbing pattern of Hitchen's writing that recalled Wolcott Gibbs' famous satire of Time magazine, Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.
2. pieces about which I knew little – I know who Harold Wilson was, but it was difficult to follow arch comments about the members of his cabinet and their friends and acquaintances.
3. Hitch could, it is said, bang these essays out in a very short time. In some cases, the structure of the essay might have benefited from slightly longer contemplation.… (mais)