Rather than a genuine insight into his personal life, here we have Hitchens on his own intellectual development as discussed in relation to the world events that unfolded around him. The memoir is organised into sections - the majority feel like political essays, which stray into autobiography – each of which considers a particular aspect of Hitchens’s life. Encompassing all of this is the development of Hitchens’s personal political ideology and his love affair with the English language, reason, and America. A broad memoir of his intellectual life, Hitch-22 touches on the author’s childhood, his private education and time at Oxford, and the many friends and acquaintances he met during his socialist days and career as a journalist and (serious) media personality. Hitch-22: A Memoir (2010) is the last book-length work that Christopher Hitchens – possibly the best-known public intellectual of our time – wrote.
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