Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

"I did not, I wish to state, become a journalist because there was no other 'profession' that would have me. I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information." Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays showcases America's leading polemicist's rejection of consensus and clich (c) whether he'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 ("a fanatic, a fundamentalist and a fraud"), the Dalai Lama, Noam Chomsky, Mel Gibson and Michael Bloomberg. Hitchens began the nineties as a "darling of the left" but has become more of an "unaffiliated radical" whose targets include those on the "left," who he accuses of "fudging" 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: 11/24/2004
ISBN: 9781560255802
Pages: 475
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.30d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2004 pg. 1079
Publishers Weekly 11/15/2004 pg. 51
Library Journal 01/15/2005 pg. 124
New York Times 02/06/2005 pg. 16
Library Journal 01/01/2005
Booklist 01/01/2005 pg. 802