num_pages: 482
description: "I did not, I wish to state, become a journalist because there was no other 'profession' that would have me. I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information." Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays showcases America's leading polemicist's rejection of consensus and clichÃ© whether he's reporting from abroad in Indonesia, Kurdistan, Iraq, North Korea, or Cuba, or when his pen is targeted mercilessly at the likes of William Clinton, Mother Theresa ("a fanatic, a fundamentalist and a fraud"), the Dalai Lama, Noam Chomsky, Mel Gibson and Michael Bloomberg. Hitchens began the nineties as a "darling of the left" but has become more of an "unaffiliated radical" whose targets include those on the "left," who he accuses of "fudging" the issue of military intervention in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet, as Hitchens shows in his reportage, cultural and literary criticism, and opinion essays from the last decade, he has not jumped ship and joined the right but is faithful to the internationalist, contrarian and democratic ideals that have always informed his work.
language: English
title: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
titlecomplete: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
characters: Marcel Proust, Friedrich Nietzsche, Kingsley Amis, Harrison Ford, Jerry Falwell Sr., Evelyn Waugh, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce, George W. Bush, Josip Broz Tito, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Honoré de Balzac, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nancy Mitford, Anita Hill, Benito Mussolini, Bill Clinton, Karl Rahner, Leon Trotsky, Christopher Ricks, David Irving, Thomas Paine, Oscar Wilde, Tony Blair, Paul Wolfowitz, Jim Dixon, Wilfred Owen, Baruch Spinoza, Lucille Ball, Jefferson Davis, Richard Nixon, Abdullah Öcalan, John McCain, Claud Cockburn, George Orwell, Osama Bin Laden, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Salman Rushdie, Howard Zinn, Aldous Huxley, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Mel Gibson, Henry V of England, James Fenton, John Dos Passos, Slobodan Milošević, Graham Greene, Bertrand Russell, Max Beerbohm, Pat Robertson, Gore Vidal, Robert E. Lee, Cecil Rhodes, Oliver North, Saddam Hussein, Henry Kissinger, Mother Teresa, François Duvalier, Norman Podhoretz, Samuel Johnson, Norman Finkelstein, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Seymour Hersh, Christopher Hitchens, H.L. Mencken, Mark Twain, George H.W. Bush, Pat Buchanan, Joseph Stalin, Robert Faurisson, Jesse James, Ronald Reagan, George Armstrong Custer, Joseph Conrad, Charles Darwin, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, Isaac Deutscher, Mary, mother of Jesus (Bible), Noam Chomsky, Ted Turner, Augie March, Philip Larkin, Rudy Giuliani, Werner Heisenberg, Augusto Pinochet, Joseph Heller, Salvador Allende, Janis Joplin, Henry James, Woodrow Wilson, Laurence Olivier, Bob Dylan, Saul Bellow, Michael Moore, Timothy McVeigh, Neville Chamberlain, T.S. Eliot, Thomas the Tank Engine, Martin Amis
genres: History, Travel, Philosophy, Essays, Religion, War, Politics, Journalism, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1874
places: Mostar, Arbil, Tucumcari, New Mexico, Winona, Arizona, Calcutta, Channel Islands, Miami, Florida, Kandahar, Sarajevo, Flagstaff, Arizona, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Erick, Oklahoma, Chancellorsville, Virginia, Missolonghi, Duarte, California, World Trade Center, New York City, New York, West Berlin, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, Agincourt, Sedona, Arizona, Groom, Texas, Gallipoli, Katyn, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Nuremberg, Washington, D.C., Jersey City, New Jersey, Joplin, Missouri, Elk City, Oklahoma, Alsace-Lorraine, Mojave Desert, Berlin Wall, Cannes, Acoma Pueblo, Culloden Moor, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Medjugorje, Fulton, Missouri, Nagasaki, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Amarillo, Texas, Moscow, Vienna, Tokyo, Mers El Kébir, Pennsylvania, St. Louis, Missouri, Kingman, Arizona, Springfield, Illinois, University of Pittsburgh, Garabandal, Dunkirk, Qalat Dizah, Gallup, New Mexico, Lake Havasu City, Arizona, Lachine, Quebec, Oslo, Kansas City, Missouri, Rome, Rio Puerco, Huntsville, Texas, New York City, New York, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Yucca, Arizona, Iraqi Kurdistan, Potosi, Missouri, Khalifan, Meramec Caverns, Glenrio, New Mexico, Scapa Flow, Orkney, Scotland, Pentagon, Arlington County, Virginia, Shaqlawa, Texola, Oklahoma, Los Angeles, California, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Halabja, Springfield, Missouri, Baltimore, Maryland, Barstow, California, Stari Most, Warsaw Ghetto, Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Diyarbakır, Coyoacán, Istanbul, Guernica, London, England, Clinton, Oklahoma, Kabul, Seligman, Arizona, Damascus
publisher: Bold Type Books