Hitch-22

One of the world's most famous journalists, Christopher Hitchens has rarely written of the private dimensions of his life - until now. In this provocative, widely acclaimed memoir, he presents the candid, personal history of a complicated man: English-born and American by adoption, all atheist and partly Jewish, stalwartly bohemian and rigorously intellectual. Hitchens discusses his famously unbending convictions, tracing the thread of principle that connects his opposition to war in Vietnam and his support for intervention in Iraq. He comments on the roots of his ironic, witty, and tough-minded style - honed through stints as a foreign correspondent in some of the world's nastiest places. Condemned to be able to see both sides of any argument, Christopher Hitchens has contradictions that contain their own multitudes.