Hitch-22: a memoir [1st ed] 9780446568968, 0446568961

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Hitch-22: a memoir [1st ed]
 9780446568968, 0446568961

Table of contents :
Prologue with premonitions --
Yvonne --
The Commander --
Fragments from an education --
Cambridge --
The sixties: revolution in the revolution --
Chris or Christopher? --
Havana versus Prague --
The Fenton factor --
Martin --
Portugal to Poland --
A second identity: on becoming an (Anglo) American --
Changing places --
Salman --
Mesopotamia from both sides --
Something of myself --
Thinking thrice about the Jewish question --
Edward Said in light and shade (and Saul) --
Decline, mutation, or metamorphosis?

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