Left Hooks, Right Crosses A Decade of Political Writing

by Hitchens, Christopher; Caldwell, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9781560254096
• ISBN10: 1560254092
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-08
• Publisher: Bold Type Books

Summary

Christopher Hitchens, provocateur and contrarian on the Left, makes the news as often as he reports it, and writes about the most controversial news and current events. Christopher Caldwell is a fresh and objective columnist in the opposite camp. Together, they present the best writing from opposite corners of the political ring at the end of the last century. These incisive observers examine each other's choices and discuss in separate introductions just what they think of the picks. "Hitchens has made a career of disagreement and dissent, of being a thorn in search of a side."Publishers Weekly "[Hitchens] is an irritable, irreverent, sarcastic, witty, and intelligent champion of the Left."Library Journal

Author Biography

Christopher Hitchens is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. His numerous books include Letters to a Young Contrarian and Why Orwell Matters.

Table of Contents

Left Hooks
Introduction	p. 3
Hurt Feelings and Free Speech	p. 9
Colombia's Dirty War, Washington's Dirty Hands	p. 15
A Few Kind Words for Liberalism	p. 33
Me and My Zeitgeist	p. 43
A Socialism of the Skin	p. 52
Looking Backward	p. 63
Martyrs and False Populists	p. 80
Dark Age	p. 88
A Lament for Bosnia	p. 107
Life in Prison; Corrections Cowboys Get a Charge Out of Their New SCI-FI Weaponry	p. 114
Child Labor in the 1990s	p. 128
Seduced by Civility: Political Manners and the Crisis of Democratic Values	p. 132
Unchained Melody	p. 145
Plucking Workers	p. 157
The End of Imagination	p. 165
The Death of Liberal Outrage	p. 180
Sextuple Jeopardy	p. 185
The False Dawn of Civil Society	p. 189
A Review of It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States	p. 199
Right Crosses
Introduction	p. 207
from The Tragedy of Macdeth	p. 213
Race and IQ ... are Whites Cleverer Than Blacks?	p. 223
Why My Father Knew	p. 227
The Unflappables	p. 243
The End of the Affair	p. 246
Why a Woman Can't be More Like a Man	p. 253
A Tale of Two Reactions	p. 257
Rich Republicans	p. 270
The Way of Love: Dorothy Day and the American Right	p. 281
What I Saw at the Impeachment	p. 294
The American Inquisition	p. 301
The Real State of the Union	p. 311
Giuseppe Conason's I Disonesti	p. 316
Hey, Kids! Don't Read This!	p. 320
Conservatism at Century's End: A Prospectus	p. 325
A Lovely War: How Clinton & Blair Dream	p. 331
A Kennedy Apart	p. 335
Unmanning Strunk and White: A New Elements of Style	p. 340
A Revolution to Save the World	p. 354
Reading Elian	p. 361
How Civilizations Fall	p. 373
About the Contributors	p. 393
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