6/28/2023 0 Comments Christopher hitchens memoirHitchens was inspired by his engagement with graduate students at NYC’s The New School where he taught Liberal Studies, specifically the evolution of the American Canon. Letters to a Young Contrarian is essentially a mentor’s guide to a budding dissident. The best Christopher Hitchens books are the ones that distill his polemics into themes. After a battle with oesophageal cancer, he died in 2011 at age 62, leaving a legacy of strident adversarial journalism and literature. Journalism provided a platform for his fervent atheism and conflict commentary across the globe from Greece to Central America to Iraq.Īfter he moved to the U.S he gained more notoriety for his rhetorical brilliance and divisive views on everything from the 9/11 attacks, to Bill Clinton to all religions. Throughout the 1960s he involved himself in various counterculture movements reflecting his leftist views and his journalistic career was born writing for the International Socialist. He credits his education with initiating a profound radicalization in his world view, as he experienced the entitled attitudes of aristocratic peers and Christian instructors spouting what he saw as untruths. Hitchens was given a private education from boarding schools through to Oxford University where he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Born in postwar England to middle class naval parents. Christopher Hitchens defined himself primarily by his writing, so reading any of his books is an immersion into the oppositional world of this erudite polemicist.
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