{"product_id":"love-poverty-and-war-journeys-and-essays-9781560255802","title":"Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays","description":"\"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.\"\u003ci\u003e Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nation Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/24\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781560255802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2004 pg. 1079\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2004 pg. 51\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2005 pg. 124\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/06\/2005 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2005 pg. 802\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Christopher Hitchens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659807944860,"sku":"9781560255802","price":21.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e9753301-c4cd-4cc7-aa15-b397381ee709.jpg?v=1603895504","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/love-poverty-and-war-journeys-and-essays-9781560255802","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}