For the sake of argument : essays and minority reports
Christopher Hitchens (Author)
The global turmoil of the late 1980s and early 1990s severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few wrote with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events - or with such discernment and wit about the small tell-tale signs of a disordered culture. First published in 1993, the writings in For the Sake of Argument range from the political squalor of Washington to the twilight of Stalinizm in Prague, from the Jewish quarter of Damascus in the aftermath of the Gulf War to the embattled barrios of Central America. Hitchens provides re-assessments of Graham Greene, P.G. Woodhouse
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9781782394976, 1782394974
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Introduction; 1. Studies in Demoralization; Where Were You Standing?; On the Imagination of Conspiracy; Contempt for the Little Colony; The State Within the State; Voting in the Passive Voice; The Hate that Dare Not Speak Its Name; A Pundit Who Need Never Dine Alone; Hard on the Houseboy; New Orleans in a Brown Shirt; Rioting in Mount Pleasant; Billionaire Populism; The Clemency of Clinton; Clinton as Rhodesian; Bill's Bills in Miami; 2. The Power and the Glory; Realpolitik in the Gulf: A Game Gone Tilt; Churchillian Delusions. No End of a LessonBefriending the Kurds; Arise, Sir Norman; Jewish in Damascus; Songs Fit For Heroes; Hating Sweden; Squeezing Costa Rica; The Saviour; Tio Sam; The Autumn of Patriarch; Third Thoughts; 3. The Cunning History; Cretinismo Eroico; The Twilight of Panzerkommunismus; Police Mentality; On the Road to Timşoara; Bricks in the Wall; The Free Market Cargo Cult; Now Neo-conservatives Perish; Appointment in Sarajevo; 4. No Class: Toryism Today; 'Society' and Its Enemies; Credibility Politics: Sado-Monetarist Economics; Union Jackshirt: Ingham's Conservative Chic. Neil Kinnock: Defeat Without HonourBribing and Twisting; 5. Coach Into Pumpkin: The Fairy Tale Reviewed; How's the Vampire?; Charlie's Angel; Unhappy Families; Princess of Dysfunction; 6. Ideas and Interests; New York Intellectuals and the Prophet Outcast; Clubland Intellectuals; The 'We' Fallacy; Shouting Anarchy; Politically Correct; Friend of Promise; Booze and Fags; 7. Rogues' Gallery; Nixon: Maestro of Resentment; Kissinger: A Touch of Evil; Berlin's Mandate for Palestine; Ghoul of Calcutta; The Life of Johnson; A Grave Disappointment All Round; Too Big For His Boot. P.J. O'Rourke: Not Funny EnoughNot Funny Enough (2); Warhol in One Dimension; 8. Critical Resources; Siding with Rushdie; Goya's Radical Pessimism; Degenerate Art; James Baldwin: Humanity First; Updike on the Make; P.G. Wodehouse in Love, Poverty and War; Greene: Where the Shadow Falls; Kazuo Ishiguro; Victor Serge; C.L.R James; In Defence of Daniel Deronda; Index; About the Author