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Arguably: Essays

Authors:

Christopher Hitchens (author) and Ghost (covers)

Language:

English

Original language:

English

Publisher:

Atlantic Books

Categories:

Anthology and essay

Publication year:

2012

Original publication year:

2011

ISBN:

978-0-85789-258-4

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Table of Contents:

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• Introduction

ALL AMERICAN

• Gods of Our Fathers: The United States of Enlightenment
• The Private Jefferson
• Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates
• Benjamin Franklin: Free and Easy
• John Brown: The Man Who Ended Slavery
• Abraham Lincoln: Misery's Child
• Mark Twain: American Radical
• Upton Sinclair: A Capitalist Primer
• JFK: In Sickness and by Stealth
• Saul Bellow: The Great Assimilator
• Vladimir Nabokov: Hurricane Lolita
• John Updike, Part One: No Way
• John Updike, Part Two: Mr. Geniality
• Vidal Loco
• America the Banana Republic
• An Anglosphere Future
• Political Animals
• Old Enough to Die
• In Defense of Foxhole Atheists
• In Search of the Washington Novel

ECLECTIC AFFINITIES

• Isaac Newton: Flaws of Gravity
• The Men Who Made England: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall
• Edmund Burke: Reactionary Prophet
• Samuel Johnson: Demons and Dictionaries
• Gustave Flaubert: I'm with Stupide
• The Dark Side of Dickens
• Marx's Journalism: The Grub Street Years
• Rebecca West: Things Worth Fighting For
• Ezra Pound: A Revolutionary Simpleton
• On Animal Farm
• Jessica Mitford's Poison Pen
• W. Somerset Maugham: Poor Old Willie
• Evelyn Waugh: The Permanent Adolescent
• P. G. Wodehouse: The Honorable Schoolboy
• Anthony Powell: An Omnivorous Curiosity
• John Buchan: Spy Thriller's Father
• Graham Greene: I'll Be Damned
• Death from a Salesman: Graham Greene's Bottled Ontology
• Loving Philip Larkin
• Stephen Spender: A Nice Bloody Fool
• Edward Upward: The Captive Mind
• C. L. R. James: Mid Off, Not Right On
• J. G. Ballard: The Catastrophist
• Fraser's Flashman: Scoundrel Time
• Fleet Street's Finest: From Waugh to Frayn
• Saki: Where the Wild Things Are
• Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived

AMUSEMENTS, ANNOYANCES, AND DISAPPOINTMENTS

• Why Women Aren't Funny
• Stieg Larsson: The Author Who Played with Fire
• As American as Apple Pie
• So Many Men's Rooms, So Little Time
• The New Commandments
• In Your Face
• Wine Drinkers of the World, Unite
• Charles, Prince of Piffle

OFFSHORE ACCOUNTS

• Afghanistan's Dangerous Bet
• First, Silence the Whistle-Blower
• Believe Me, It's Torture
• Iran's Waiting Game
• Long Live Democratic Seismology
• Benazir Bhutto: Daughter of Destiny
• From Abbottabad to Worse
• The Perils of Partition
• Algeria: A French Quarrel
• The Case of Orientalism
• Edward Said: Where the Twain Should Have Met
• The Swastika and the Cedar
• Holiday in Iraq
• Tunisia: At the Desert's Edge
• What Happened to the Suicide Bombers of Jerusalem?
• Childhood's End: An African Nightmare
• The Vietnam Syndrome
• Once Upon a Time in Germany
• Worse Than Nineteen Eighty-four
• North Korea: A Nation of Racist Dwarves
• The Eighteenth Brumaire of the Castro Dynasty
• Hugo Boss
• Is the Euro Doomed?
• Overstating Jewish Power
• The Case for Humanitarian Intervention

LEGACIES OF TOTALITARIANISM

• Victor Serge: Pictures from an Inquisition
• André Malraux: One Man's Fate
• Arthur Koestler: The Zealot
• Isabel Allende: Chile Redux
• The Persian Version
• Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight
• Imagining Hitler
• Victor Klemperer: Survivor
• A War Worth Fighting
• Just Give Peace a Chance?
• W. G. Sebald: Requiem for Germany

WORDS' WORTH

• When the King Saved God
• Let Them Eat Pork Rinds
• Stand Up for Denmark!
• Eschew the Taboo
• She's No Fundamentalist
• Burned Out
• Easter Charade
• Don't Mince Words
• History and Mystery
• Words Matter
• This Was Not Looting
• The Other L-Word
• The You Decade
• Suck It Up
• A Very, Very Dirty Word
• Prisoner of Shelves
• Acknowledgments
• Index

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