"The most scathing, inflammatory, hilarious and (fill in the blank) commentaries on life in all its manifestations." -- Hudson Valley News

Foreword by Martin Amis

For decades, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Hitch-twenty-two crisscrossed the globe debating religious scholars, Catholic clergy, rabbis, and devout Christians on the existence of God -- appearances that attracted thousands of people on both sides of the issue. He was invited to talk shows and events to discuss everything from the death of Jerry Falwell to the sainthood of Mother Teresa, from U.S. policy in the Middle East to the dangers of religious fundamentalism and beyond. And he was always armed with pithy discourse as intelligent as it is quotable.

The Quotable Hitchens gathers for the first time the eminent journalist, public intellectual, and all-around provocateur Christopher Hitchens's most scathing, inflammatory, hilarious, and clear-cut commentary from the course of his storied career. Drawn from his many TV appearances, debates, lectures, interviews, articles, and books, the quotations are arranged alphabetically by subject -- from atheism and alcoholism to George Orwell and Bertrand Russell, from Islamofascism and Iraq to smoking and sex -- and perfectly capture the wit and range of "an intellectual willing to show his teeth in the cause of righteousness" (The New Yorker).

"At first glance, the book reminds one of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, but this volume is something more personal, more outre and more funny. Smartly organized by subject, it is a book to be enjoyed both as a long visit with the incomparable social critic and as a quick reference." -- Washington Times

"Slings, arrows, withering one-liners... a 300-odd-page chrestomathy of provocation, comedy and-all seeing fury." -- Word Magazine

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• Publication Date: May 10, 2011
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