Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere"Hitchens provides rich evidence that his own sallies as a political journalist are nourished by an erudite familiarity with a broad sweep of novelists, essayists and poets. In these pages Oscar Wilde's profound radicalism is uncovered; George Orwell's role as a fulcrum between left and right is carefully appraised; the languid irony and cosmopolitanism of Gore Vidal are celebrated; and a discussion of the fatwah issued against Salman Rushdie prompts a meditation on the West's misunderstood encounter with Islam. Along the way, a refined and knowledgeable palate samples offerings from, amongst others, P. G. Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Anthony Powell, Saul Bellow, Alan Bloom, Philip Larkin and Patrick O'Brian, and dethrones the overrated, conspicuous among them such figures as Tom Wolfe and Isaiah Berlin."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... least one president . Who , Hay wondered , would the splendid little war – oh , fatuous phrase ! - bring forth ? Adams favored General Miles , the brother - in- law of his beloved Lizzie Cameron . Lodge had already declared that Admiral ...
... least one president . Who , Hay wondered , would the splendid little war – oh , fatuous phrase ! - bring forth ? Adams favored General Miles , the brother - in- law of his beloved Lizzie Cameron . Lodge had already declared that Admiral ...
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... least because they insulated their respective societies from socialism tout court . One assumes that , with his sense of history , he means the Lloyd George who was the patron of Field Marshal Douglas Haig , and the guarded admirer of ...
... least because they insulated their respective societies from socialism tout court . One assumes that , with his sense of history , he means the Lloyd George who was the patron of Field Marshal Douglas Haig , and the guarded admirer of ...
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... least she could do now was die . But this she didn't do until June 7 1967. The Reverend Dr King was chairing a meeting of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference , in an Atlanta restaurant called B. B. Beamon's , when he received ...
... least she could do now was die . But this she didn't do until June 7 1967. The Reverend Dr King was chairing a meeting of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference , in an Atlanta restaurant called B. B. Beamon's , when he received ...
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Oscar Wildes Socialism | 9 |
George Orwell and Raymond Williams | 26 |
Oh Lionel | 44 |
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