Ben Burgis, "Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters" (Zero Books, 2022)
New Books in Journalism
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The Rise and Fall of Kissinger
Christopher Hitchens famously came out in support of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and then Iraq. The obvious question is how on earth could this happen? How could someone who was a committed international socialist end up supporting military aggression? "How do we go from, uh, neither Washington nor Moscow to Washington after all?" he asks.
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