Ben Burgis, "Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters" (Zero Books, 2022)
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Ben Burgess is a Jacobin columnist and adjunct philosophy professor at Morehouse College. He says he found Christopher Hitchens' writing compelling, even when he disagreed with him. His book will be published by zero books in 2022. The author hopes to help readers understand how someone whose political life was animated by the socialist left could have ended up holding grotesque positions on Iraq and the war on terror.
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