Title: Unhitched : the trial of Christopher Hitchens /
Authors: Seymour, Richard, 1977-
Year: 2012
Subjects: Hitchens, Christopher.; Hitchens, Christopher Political and social views.; Right and left (Political science) United States.; Intellectuals United States Biography.; Journalists United States Biography; Political activists United States Biography; British Americans Biography.
Abstract: Irascible and forthright, Christopher Hitchens stood out as a man determined to do just that. In his younger years, a career-minded socialist, he emerged from the smoke of 9/11 a neoconservative "Marxist," an advocate of Americaʹs invasion of Iraq filled with passionate intensity. Throughout his life, he played the role of universal gadfly, whose commitment to the truth transcended the party line as well as received wisdom. But how much of this was imposture? In this highly critical study, Richard Seymour casts a cold eye over the career of the "Hitch" to uncover an intellectual trajectory determined by expediency and a fetish for power. -- Publisher description.
Contents: Prologue: Predictable as Hell -- Christopher Hitchens in Theory and Practice -- English Questions, from Orwell to Thatcher -- Guilty as Sin : Theophobia, from Rushdie to the War on Terror -- The Englishman Abroad and the Road to Empire -- Conclusion: Twenty-Twenty Blindfold.