false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173562159m/304268.jpg 304268 3 <div>"I did not, I wish to state, become a journalist because there was no other &#8216;profession&#8217; that would have me. I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.&#8221; Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays showcases America's leading polemicist's rejection of consensus and cliché, whether he&#8217;s reporting from abroad in Indonesia, Kurdistan, Iraq, North Korea, or Cuba, or when his pen is targeted mercilessly at the likes of William Clinton, Mother Theresa (&#8220;a fanatic, a fundamentalist and a fraud&#8221;), the Dalai Lama, Noam Chomsky, Mel Gibson and Michael Bloomberg. Hitchens began the nineties as a &#8220;darling of the left&#8221; but has become more of an &#8220;unaffiliated radical&#8221; whose targets include those on the &#8220;left,&#8221; who he accuses of &#8220;fudging&#8221; the issue of military intervention in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet, as Hitchens shows in his reportage, cultural and literary criticism, and opinion essays from the last decade, he has not jumped ship and joined the right but is faithful to the internationalist, contrarian and democratic ideals that have always informed his work.</div> 876201 23 11 2004 Love, Poverty, and War : Journeys and Essays total:189|5:38|4:93|3:48|2:7|1:3| 189 723 288 15 3 2 false false Wed Oct 24 12:03:07 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 24 12:09:24 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jan 12 06:52:45 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 06:54:40 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Aug 28 10:45:36 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 10:46:03 -0700 2007 4 1 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 07:55:42 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 08:01:56 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Tue Oct 07 20:46:28 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 20:46:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 05 10:00:13 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 14:09:45 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 10:00:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 03:40:47 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 03:46:33 -0700 2009 The first section, primarily on writers, was for me the least interesting, although doubtless would be very interesting to some readers.
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