description: The author confronts the legacy of Kipling, Trotsky and Churchill, and celebrates the work of Joyce, Proust and Borges. He then turns to his journeys around America and his moving assessment of the United States after 9/11.
language: English
title: Love,Poverty and War : Journeys and Essays
titlecomplete: Love,Poverty and War : Journeys and Essays
characters: David Irving, Max Beerbohm, Claud Cockburn, George Armstrong Custer, H.L. Mencken, Gore Vidal, Joseph Stalin, Oliver North, Saul Bellow, Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Seymour Hersh, Werner Heisenberg, Rudy Giuliani, Slobodan Milošević, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Norman Podhoretz, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Darwin, Noam Chomsky, Isaac Deutscher, James Joyce, Nicolae Ceauşescu, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, Bertrand Russell, Salvador Allende, Martin Amis, Nancy Mitford, Janis Joplin, Henry Kissinger, Henry V of England, Joseph Heller, Josip Broz Tito, Bill Clinton, Henry James, George H.W. Bush, Thomas the Tank Engine, James Fenton, Osama Bin Laden, Oscar Wilde, Norman Finkelstein, John McCain, Michael Moore, Saddam Hussein, Neville Chamberlain, Mary, mother of Jesus (Bible), Karl Rahner, George W. Bush, Anita Hill, Marcel Proust, Abdullah Öcalan, Wilfred Owen, Aldous Huxley, Richard Nixon, Salman Rushdie, Harrison Ford, Pat Robertson, Jefferson Davis, Tony Blair, Honoré de Balzac, Christopher Hitchens, Cecil Rhodes, Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Johnson, Jesse James, Mark Twain, Ronald Reagan, Christopher Ricks, Mel Gibson, T.S. Eliot, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Timothy McVeigh, Graham Greene, Paul Wolfowitz, Ted Turner, Pat Buchanan, Jim Dixon, Baruch Spinoza, Evelyn Waugh, Augusto Pinochet, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Joseph Conrad, John Dos Passos, Benito Mussolini, Robert E. Lee, François Duvalier, Augie March, Jerry Falwell Sr., Robert Faurisson, Lucille Ball, Mother Teresa, Howard Zinn, Leon Trotsky, William Faulkner, Woodrow Wilson, Bob Dylan, George Orwell, Laurence Olivier, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Paine
genres: Essays, Politics, Religion, Philosophy, Travel, War, Nonfiction, History, Literary Criticism, Journalism
ratings_count: 1874
places: Mojave Desert, St. Louis, Missouri, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Kansas City, Missouri, Amarillo, Texas, West Berlin, Cannes, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, Los Angeles, California, Mostar, Winona, Arizona, Guernica, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gallup, New Mexico, Flagstaff, Arizona, Acoma Pueblo, Tokyo, Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Iraqi Kurdistan, Scapa Flow, Orkney, Scotland, Groom, Texas, Berlin Wall, University of Pittsburgh, Garabandal, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Joplin, Missouri, Diyarbakır, Lake Havasu City, Arizona, Glenrio, New Mexico, Calcutta, Pennsylvania, Kandahar, Dunkirk, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Potosi, Missouri, New York City, New York, Rome, Agincourt, Stari Most, Tucumcari, New Mexico, Vienna, Culloden Moor, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Seligman, Arizona, Sedona, Arizona, Khalifan, Moscow, Texola, Oklahoma, Yucca, Arizona, Nuremberg, World Trade Center, New York City, New York, Clinton, Oklahoma, Barstow, California, Duarte, California, Jersey City, New Jersey, Sarajevo, Chancellorsville, Virginia, Medjugorje, Qalat Dizah, Lachine, Quebec, Warsaw Ghetto, London, England, Gallipoli, Mers El Kébir, Katyn, Erick, Oklahoma, Elk City, Oklahoma, Miami, Florida, Istanbul, Fulton, Missouri, Baltimore, Maryland, Nagasaki, Damascus, Springfield, Missouri, Shaqlawa, Pentagon, Arlington County, Virginia, Channel Islands, Oslo, Kingman, Arizona, Huntsville, Texas, Coyoacán, Halabja, Alsace-Lorraine, Washington, D.C., Springfield, Illinois, Arbil, Rio Puerco, Meramec Caverns, Missolonghi, Kabul
publisher: Atlantic Books