{"product_id":"love-poverty-and-war-journeys-and-essays","title":"Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays","description":"In this sweeping collection of essays, reportage and criticism, Hitchens' polemical talents at their most fearsome.\n\n\"I did not, I wish to state, become a journalist because there was no  other 'profession' that would have me. I became a journalist because I  did not want to rely on newspapers for information.\" \n\nLove, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays  showcases the Hitchens' rejection of consensus and  cliche, whether he's reporting from abroad in Indonesia, Kurdistan,  Iraq, North Korea, or Cuba, or when his pen is targeted mercilessly at  the likes of William Clinton, Mother Theresa (\"a fanatic, a  fundamentalist and a fraud\"), the Dalai Lama, Noam Chomsky, Mel Gibson  and Michael Bloomberg. \n\nHitchens began the nineties as a \"darling of the  left\" but has become more of an \"unaffiliated radical\" whose targets  include those on the \"left,\" who he accuses of \"fudging\" the issue of  military intervention in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet, as  Hitchens shows in his reportage, cultural and literary criticism, and  opinion essays from the last decade, he has not jumped ship and joined  the right but is faithful to the internationalist, contrarian and  democratic ideals that have always informed his work.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39664514302037,"sku":"9781843544524N","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/63ed41e6-8917-4529-a70a-3de1969c88a7.jpg?v=1644307157","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/love-poverty-and-war-journeys-and-essays","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}