About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 68. Chapters: English communists, E. P. Thompson, Doris Lessing, Alan Bush, Ewan MacColl, Joan Littlewood, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Christopher Hitchens, Stewart Farrar, Bob Crow, Dave Nellist, Arthur Scargill, A. L. Lloyd, Sylvia Pankhurst, Tom Wintringham, Fred Copeman, Harold Rosen, Corin Redgrave, John Prebble, Clare Frewen Sheridan, Alexander Baron, Hewlett Johnson, Sid French, Benjamin Frankel, Edgell Rickword, Lou Kenton, John Lawrence, Martin Flannery, David Nicholson, Eric Fletcher Waters, George Nathan, George Derwent Thomson, Nina Fishman, Fanny Deakin, Sue Slipman, David Crook, Kay Beauchamp, Maurice Eden Paul, Douglas Hyde, Humphrey Slater, John Cornford, Mike Hicks, Joan Beauchamp, Ralph Winston Fox, Phil Piratin, Randall Swingler, Monty Goldman, Michael Chant, Hugh Sykes Davies, J. T. Murphy, Peter Brearey, Jimmy Freill, Clive Branson. Excerpt: Christopher Eric Hitchens (born 13 April 1949) is an English-American author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career span more than four decades. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and became a media fellow at the Hoover Institution in September 2008. He is a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits and in 2005 he was voted the world's fifth top public intellectual in a Prospect/Foreign Policy poll. Hitchens is known for his admiration of George Orwell, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson and for his excoriating critiques of, among others, Mother Teresa, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Henry Kissinger. His confrontational style of debate has made him both a lauded and controversial figure. As a political observer, polemicist and self-defined radical, he rose to prominence as a fixture of the left-wing publications in his native Britain and in the...
