And yet--: essays

"These seminal, uncollected essays by the late Christopher Hitchens showcase the notorious contrarian's genius for rhetoric, and offer sharp rebukes to tyrants and the ill-informed everywhere. Christopher Hitchens was arguably the most erudite, provocative, and polarizing writers of the last twenty-five years. When he passed away in 2011 from esophageal cancer, writers, readers, pundits, and critics around the world mourned his loss. This collection of essays brings together some of the finest pieces Hitchens published over the last two decades for the first time in one book, addressing with characteristic wit and erudition the subjects he is best known for, including: the case against God, faith and religious observance; the case for intervention in Iraq; indictments of towering political figures like Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, and Henry Kissinger; and celebrations of the writers and thinkers whose work meant most to him, from Saul Bellow, George Orwell, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine, to his dear friends Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie, among others"--

Intro; Epigraph; Che Guevara: Goodbye to All That; Orwell's List; Orhan Pamuk: Mind the Gap; Bring on the Mud; Ohio's Odd Numbers; On Becoming American; Mikhail Lermontov: A Doomed Young Man; Salman Rushdie: Hobbes in the Himalayas; My Red-State Odyssey; The Turkey Has Landed; Bah, Humbug; A.N. Wilson: Downhill All the Way; Ian Fleming: Bottoms Up; Power Suits; Blood for No Oil!; How Uninviting; Look Who's Cutting and Running Now; Oriana Fallaci and the Art of the Interview; Imperial Follies; Clive James: The Omnivore; Gertrude Bell: The Woman Who Made Iraq; Physician, Heal Thyself

Edmund Wilson: Literary CompanionOn the Limits of Self-improvement, Part I: Of Vice and Men; On the Limits of Self-improvement, Part II: Vice and Versa; On the Limits of Self-improvement, Part III: Mission Accomplished; Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Price of Freedom; Arthur Schlesinger: The Courtier; Paul Scott: Victoria's Secret; The Case against Hillary Clinton; The Tall Tale of Tuzla; V.S. Naipaul: Cruel and Unusual; No Regrets; Barack Obama: Cool Cat; The Lovely Stones; Edward M. Kennedy: Redemption Song; Engaging with Iran Is Like Having Sex with Someone Who Hates You

Colin Powell: Powell ValedictionShut …