A Hitch in time : reflections ready for reconsideration
Book |
First U.S. edition. |
Twelve,
New York :
2024.
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About
Anthologized here for the first time, A HITCH IN TIME is a choice selection of Christopher Hitchens's finest reviews, diary entries and essays - along with a smattering of ferocious letters. Familiar bêtes noires--Kennedy, Nixon, Kissinger, Clinton--rub shoulders with lesser-known preoccupations: P.G. Wodehouse, Princess Margaret and, magisterially, Isaiah Berlin. A HITCH IN TIME is a banquet of entertaining stories ranging from his thoughts on Salman Rushdie to being spanked by Margaret Thatcher in The House of Lords and the night he took his son to the Oscars. The broad scope and high caliber of Hitchens' essays allows his work to transcend the occasion for which it was written and continues to be essential reading. Along with an introduction by James Wolcott, A HITCH IN TIME recaptures the brilliance of Hitchens - barnstorming, cauterizing, and ultimately uncontainable.
Details
- ISBN: 9781538757659
- Physical Description: xvi, 312 pages ; 24 cmprint
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Twelve, 2024.
- Copyright: ©2021.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note: Foreword / by James Wolcott -- The wrong stuff: on Tom Wolfe, 1983 -- Diary: Operation Desert Storm, 1991 -- Oh Lionel! On P.G. Wodehouse, 1992 -- Mary, Mary: On J. Edgar Hoover, 1993 -- Say what you will about Harold: On Harold Wilson, 1993 -- Diary: The Salman Rushdie acid test, 1994 -- Diary: Spanking, 1994 -- Who runs Britain? Police espionage, 1994 -- Lucky Kim: On Kim Philby, 1995 -- Diary: At the Oscars, 1995 -- Look over your shoulder: The Oklahoma bombing, 1995 -- Letters: Richard Cummings, Christopher Hitchens -- After-time: On Gore Vidal, 1995 -- A hard dog to keep on the porch: On Bill Clinton, 1996 -- The trouble with HRH: On Princess Margaret, 1997 -- Brief shining moments: Kennedy and Nixon, 1998 -- Letters: Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Christopher Hitchens, Mervyn Jones -- Acts of violence in Grosvenor Square: On 1968, 1998 -- Diary: The "Almanach de Gotha," 1998 -- Moderation or death: On Isaiah Berlin, 1998 -- Letters: Roger Scruton, Francis Wheen, Mark Lilly, Christopher Hitchens -- What a lot of parties: On Diana Mosley, 1999 -- 11 September 1973: Pinochet and Britain, 2002.