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 Secret Bomb in Cambodia
There is tangible documentary evidence of Kissinger talking to these national security meetings in the Nixon White House. There are places, you know, and similarly, you can find him talking about very specific things that you could actually prosecute as war crimes. I'm not accusing your dad of killing anybody in Chile. I am accused of him of giving economic advice to a really awful person. But it's, it's, It's, it’s, it was kept secret from Americans. And he still gets asked to write for prestigious journals or opine on news networks. He doesn't get called out too much by hitchens now because they don't like his style.
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