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Every effort has been made to obtain permission with reference to material, both illustrative and quoted. This slim volume shows him at his quintessential best, inspiring future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, and angry young men and offering them the wisdom of a seasoned campaigner. The first edition of the novel was published in 2001, and was written by christopher hitchens. Letters to a young contrarian by christopher hitchens basic books. Exploring the entire range of contrary positionsfrom noble dissident to. It was actually during the book tour for this very novel that hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer and had to cancel the remainder of his book tour in response to the diagnosis. The missionary position i was very much discouraged as i asked the most obvious questions and initiated what were, at the outset, the most perfunctory investigations by almost every. This novel consisted of a total of 107 essays by hitchens, spanning a large amount of cultural and political topics that he had expounded upon in different magazines and debates throughout the years. Letters to a young contrarian by christopher hitchens pdf.
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