Content appears as new, unopened, unread and unblemished with fine red boards with DJ displaying no significant surface/edge wear, as shown. Sliight bumpat head of spine.About the book: Americas foremost rhetorical pugilist. John Giuffo, The Village VoiceThe death of Christopher Hitchens in December 2011 prematurely silenced a voice that was among the most admired of contemporary writers. For more than forty years, Hitchens delivered to numerous publications on both sides of the Atlantic essays that were astonishingly wide-ranging and provocative. The judges for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, posthumously bestowed on Hitchens, praised him for the way he wrote with fervor about the books and writers he loved and with unbridled venom about ideas and political figures he loathed. He could write, the judges went on to say, with undisguised brio, mining the resources of the language as if alert to every possibility of color and inflection. He was, as Benjamin Schwarz, his editor at The Atlantic magazine, recalled, slashing and lively, biting and funnyand with a nuanced sensibility and a refined ear that he kept in tune with his encyclopedic knowledge and near photographic memory of English poetry. And as Michael Dirda, writing in the Times Literary Supplement, observed, Hitchens was a flail and a scourge, but also a gift to readers everywhere.The author of five previous volumes of selected writings, including the international bestseller Arguably, ...

Simon & Schuster, January Date: 2015. First Edition. Hardcover . Very Good/Very Good. First edition, full number line 2015. Simon & Schuster ISBN 1476772061 9781476772066 [US]