Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere by Hitchens, Christopher - 2000

London: Verso/ New Left Books, 2000. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Quarter bound blue cloth greyish boards with black lettering on spine, headband, xx, 358 pages, Near Fine to Fine condition appears unread, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition now in Mylar. "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 & poets. In these pages Oscar Wilde's profound radicalism is uncovered; George Orwell's role as a fulcrum between left & right is carefully appraised; the languid irony & cosmopolitanism of Gore Vidal are celbrated; & a discussion of the fatwah issued against Salman Rushdie prompts a meditation on the West's musunderstood encounter with Islam. Along the way a refined & knowledgeable palate samples offerings from amongst others, P. G. Wodehouse, Arhur Conan Ddoyle, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Anthony Powell, Saul Bellow, Alan Bloom, Philip Larkin & Patrick O' Brian, and dethrones the overrated, conspicuous among them such figures as Tom Wolfe and Isaish Berlin." Check out the scans. . 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.