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Christopher Hitchens spent 60 years woven between the United States and the United Kingdom, engaging as a foreign correspondent in some of the world’s most perilous locales and as a celebrated journalist. A self‑identified socialist, he opposed the Vietnam War yet later backed U.S. intervention against Islamic extremism in Iraq. Raised Christian and later proclaimed a fervent atheist, Hitchens’ life was shaped by a Jewish heritage revealed only after his mother’s suicide. His career as a political activist, author, and connoisseur of literature and alcohol underscored his belief that the personal is political. This biography chronicles the remarkable, multifaceted life of a man who saw all sides of every argument and lived it in full force.
First publish date: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Autobiography
Authors: Christopher Hitchens
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