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Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British and American author and journalist. [2] [3] He was the author of 18 books on faith, religion, culture, politics, and literature. He was born and educated in Britain, graduating in the 1970s from Oxford with a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics.
Mortality is a 2012, posthumously published book by Anglo-American writer Christopher Hitchens.It comprises seven essays which first appeared in Vanity Fair concerning his struggle with esophageal cancer, with which he was diagnosed during his 2010 book tour [1] and which killed him in December 2011. [2]
Hitchens explains how some religions can be hostile to disease treatment. He writes that many Muslims saw the polio vaccine as a conspiracy, and thus allowed polio to spread. [15] He discusses the Catholic Church's response to the spread of HIV in Africa, telling people that condoms are ineffective, which, he argues, contributed to the death ...
Hitch-22: A Memoir is a memoir written by author and journalist Christopher Hitchens.. The book was published in May 2010 by Atlantic Books in the UK and June 2011 by Twelve, an imprint of Hachette Book Group USA, and was later nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.
— Christopher Hitchens, English-American author, to his agent Steven Wasserman (15 December 2011) "I'm gonna go see Jesus, want to see Jesus." [110] [111] — Whitney Houston, American musician (11 February 2012) "I called you a putz cause I thought you werebeing intentionally disingenuous. If not I apologize.@CenLamar @dust92" [112]
“The loss of Peter’s wonderful brother, the great [author] Christopher Hitchens, still reverberates – an unmatched raconteur, writer, arguer, and bon vivant, and the world mourns Christopher ...
In May 2009 The Rage Against God was anticipated by Michael Gove, who wrote in The Times: . I long to see [Peter Hitchens] take the next stage in his writer's journey and examine, with his unsparing honesty, the rich human reality of the division he believes is now more important than the split between Left and Right—the deeper gulf between the restless progressive and the Christian pessimist.
Peter Bergen writes that any sober assessment of Henry Kissinger’s actual record must surely conclude that writer Christopher Hitchens was more right than not about deeming Kissinger a “war ...