num_pages: 430
description: A celebration of Percy Shelley’s assertion that ‘poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world’, these thirty-plus essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie dispel the myth of politics as a stone tied to the neck of literature; Norman Podhoretz’s ‘bloody crossroads’. Instead Hitchens argues that when all parties in the state were agreed on a matter, it was the individual pens that created the space for a true moral argument.
language: English
title: Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
titlecomplete: Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
characters: Hannah Arendt, Nancy Reagan, Elizabeth Taylor, Joseph Stalin, Aleister Crowley, Plato, Mikhail Bakunin, Albert Camus, Napoleon, Stephen Maturin, George Bernard Shaw, Rudy Giuliani, John Lennon, Bram Stoker, Jack London, Charles Darwin, Noam Chomsky, Unity Mitford, Marie Antoinette, Thomas Aquinas, Mary Shelley, Bertrand Russell, Norman Thomas, Robert Lowell, Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, Henry James, George H.W. Bush, Oscar Wilde, Robert Browning, Joe Hill, Robert Graves, Søren Kierkegaard, Jack Aubrey, Edward Gibbon, Oswald Mosley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aristotle (philosopher), Yorick, Thomas Becket, H.G. Wells, Benjamin Disraeli, Joseph McCarthy, O.J. Simpson, Marcel Proust, Aubrey Beardsley, Wilfred Owen, Harold Wilson, Harrison Ford, Gerry Adams, Charles Lindbergh, John Steinbeck, William of Baskerville, Andy Warhol, Menachem Begin, Greta Garbo (The Prince of Beverly Hills), Valerie Solanas, Leo Tolstoy, André Gide, Allen Ginsberg, F. Scott Fitzgerald, David Lloyd George, Mark Twain, Ronald Reagan, Alger Hiss, Maxwell Perkins, Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland, Ambrose Bierce, Sophocles, Pat Buchanan, Isaac Newton, Henry II of England, Theodor Herzl, Ezra Pound, Max Nordau, Jesse Jackson, Michael Dukakis, Sancho Panza, Ronald Firbank, P.G. Wodehouse, Éamon de Valera, Polonius, Robert E. Lee, Jean Genet, George Harrison, John Bayley, Mother Teresa, Pablo Picasso, Reginald Jeeves, Joe Biden, Dylan Thomas, Iris Murdoch, Horatio Hornblower, David Ben-Gurion, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, John Paul II, George Orwell, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Paine
genres: Essays, Politics, Philosophy, Biography, Literature, Criticism, Nonfiction, Writing, History, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 276
publisher: Verso