Ben Burgis, "Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters" (Zero Books, 2022)
New Books in Biography
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The Rise and Fall of Guy Rimsonam
He's the first war, where he warms up to the idea that the US military could actually be a force for good in the world. And one reason why that's important is that he'd spent time in this Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq. He often wears a flag lapel pin and it's not stars and stripes but the flag of Kurdistan. So this too, I think makes me think that Islamophobia is a huge oversimplification.
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