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  <name><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[&quot;Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949) is an English-born American author, journalist and literary critic. Currently living in Washington, D.C., he has been a columnist at Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry, and a variety of other media outlets. Hitchens is also a political observer, whose best-selling books — the latest being God Is Not Great — have made him a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits.

Hitchens is a polemicist and intellectual. While he was once identified with the Anglo-American radical political left, he has more recently embraced some arguably right-wing causes, notably the Iraq War; the war has had the support of some liberal commentators of Hitchens' acquaintance in the UK and Canada. Formerly a Trotskyist and a fixture in the left wing publications of both the United Kingdom and United States, Hitchens departed from the grassroots of the political left in 1989 after what he called the &quot;tepid reaction&quot; of the European left following Ayatollah Khomeini's issue of a fatwa calling for the murder of Salman Rushdie, but he has stated on the Charlie Rose show aired August 2007 that he remains a &quot;democratic Socialist.&quot; The September 11, 2001 attacks strengthened his embrace of an interventionist foreign policy, and his vociferous criticism of what he calls &quot;fascism with an Islamic face.&quot; He is known for his ardent admiration of George Orwell, Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, and for his excoriating critiques of Mother Teresa, Henry Kissinger, and Bill Clinton.
Hitchens is an anti-theist, and he describes himself as a believer in the Enlightenment values of secularism, humanism, and reason. He was recently made a media fellow at the Hoover Institution.&quot;

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  <title><![CDATA[God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-believer]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Letters to a Young Contrarian]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Trial of Henry Kissinger]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Why Orwell Matters]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Love, Poverty, and War : Journeys and Essays]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson: Author of America]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: Books That Changed the World]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens]]></name>
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        <book id="43371">
  <title><![CDATA[No One Left To Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens]]></name>
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