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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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Mother Teresa and the Devolier Dilemma

The book is about Mother Teresa and her relationship with the devolier dictatorship in Haiti. It's a very, it's a very good book, but it's not digestible," he says. "She actually crusaded against liberalizing the abortion, the divorce laws" She accepted money from people who thought she was working for the poorest of all humanity,. But that wasn't true; they went to religious missionary work.

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