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Christopher Hitchens
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born
in Portsmouth, England, The United Kingdom
April 13, 1949
died
December 15, 2011
genre
influences
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Less than a day after Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s communication minister appeared on television to announce that the socialist leader was in failing health, Chávez has died. In 2010, Christopher Hitchens wrote about a 2008 visit to Venezuela with actor Sean Penn during which he gained a rare insight into Chávez’s mental health.
Recent accounts of Hugo Chávez's politicized necrophilia may...
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God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
— published 2007 — 54 editions |
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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
by Christopher Hitchens , Titus Lucretius Carus , Omar Khayyám — published 2007 — 13 editions |
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Hitch-22: A Memoir
— published 2010 — 31 editions |
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Mortality
— published 2012 — 23 editions |
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Arguably: Selected Essays
— published 2011 — 20 editions |
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Letters to a Young Contrarian
— published 2001 — 18 editions |
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The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
— published 1995 — 13 editions |
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Why Orwell Matters
— published 2002 — 10 editions |
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Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
— published 2005 — 12 editions |
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger
— published 2001 — 18 editions |
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“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
― Christopher Hitchens
“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
― Christopher Hitchens
― Christopher Hitchens
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