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LSO BY
C
HRISTOPHER
H
ITCHENS
BOOKS
Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger
Blood, Class and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies
Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles
Why Orwell Matters
No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton
Letters to a Young Contrarian
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
Thomas Paine’s “Rights of Man”: A Biography
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
The Portable Atheist
Hitch-22: A Memoir
PAMPHLETS
Karl Marx and the Paris Commune
The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain’s Favorite Fetish
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq
ESSAYS
Prepared for the Worst: Essays and Minority Reports
For the Sake of Argument
Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays
COLLABORATIONS
James Callaghan: The Road to Number Ten
(with Peter Kellner)
Blaming the Victims
(edited with Edward Said)
When the Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds
(photographs by Ed Kash)
International Territory: The United Nations
(photographs by Adam Bartos)
Vanity Fair’s Hollywood
(with Graydon Carter and David Friend)

Copyright © 2011 by Christopher Hitchens

Published simultaneously in the United States by Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing.

All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without the prior written consent of the publisher – or, in case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a licence from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency – is an infringement of the copyright law.

LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION

Hitchens, Christopher
    Arguably : essays by / Christopher Hitchens.

eISBN: 978-0-7710-4146-4

    1. Essays–20th century. 2. Essays–21st century. I. Title.

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We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program and that of the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Media Development Corporation’s Ontario Book Initiative. We further acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program.

The author is grateful to the following publications in which the essays of this book originally appeared, sometimes in slightly different form:
The Atlantic, City Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Guardian
(London),
Newsweek, New Statesman, The New York Times Book Review, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Wilson Quarterly, Times Literary Supplement
, and
Vanity Fair
.

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“Live all you can: It’s a mistake not to.”

—Lambert Strether, in
The Ambassadors

 

Contents

 

 

Cover

Other Books by This Author

Title Page

Copyright

Epigraph

Dedication

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

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