Long Live Hitch by Hitchens, Christopher -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Contents God is Not Great

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One :Putting It Mildly Two: Religion Kills Three: A Short Digression on the Pig; Four: A Note on Health, to Which Religion Can Be Hazardous Five: The Metaphysical Claims of Religion Are False Six: Arguments from Design Seven: Revelation: The Nightmare of the “Old” Testament Eight :The “New” Testament Exceeds the Evil of the “Old” One Nine: The Koran Is Borrowed from Both Jewish and Christian Myths Ten: The Tawdriness of the Miraculous and the Decline of Hell Eleven: “The Lowly Stamp of Their Origin”: Religion?s Corrupt Beginnings Twelve: A Coda: How Religions End Thirteen: Does Religion Make People Behave Better? Fourteen: There Is No “Eastern” Solution Fifteen: Religion as an Original Sin Sixteen: Is Religion Child Abuse? Seventeen: An Objection Anticipated: The Last-Ditch “Case” Against Secularism Eighteen: A Finer Tradition: The Resistance of the Rational Nineteen: In Conclusion: The Need for a New Enlightenment Acknowledgments References Index

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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

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About the Author

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Foreword Prologue with Premonitions

Yvonne The Commander Fragments from an Education Cambridge The Sixties: Revolution in the Revolution Chris or Christopher? Havana versus Prague The Fenton Factor Martin Portugal to Poland A Second Identity: On Becoming an (Anglo) American Changing Places Salman Mesopotamia from Both Sides Something of Myself Thinking Thrice about the Jewish Question . . . Edward Said in Light and Shade (and Saul) Decline, Mutation, or Metamorphosis?

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