num_pages: 160
description: In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of intellectuals, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men and dissidents. Who better to speak to that person who finds him or herself on a contrarian position than Hitchens, who has made a career of disagreeing in profound and entertaining ways.
language: English
title: Letters To A Young Contrarian
titlecomplete: Letters To A Young Contrarian (Letters to a Young... S.)
characters: Henry Kissinger, Bertrand Russell, Thabo Mbeki, Christopher Hitchens, Susan Sontag, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Rainer Maria Rilke, Noam Chomsky, Ayn Rand, Smike, E.P. Thompson, Nicholas Nickleby, Ronald Ridenhour, Diana Frances Spencer, Princess of Wales, Émile Zola, Adam Michnik, Salman Rushdie, George Orwell
genres: Religion, Biography, Politics, Atheism, Philosophy, Memoir, Nonfiction, Essays, Journalism, History
ratings_count: 11843
publisher: Basic Books