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Aug 7, 2009. Christopher Hitchens talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about George Orwell. Drawing on his book Why Orwell Matters, Hitchens talks about Orwell's opposition to imperialism, fascism, and Stalinism, his moral courage, and his devotion to language. Along the way, Hitchens makes the case for why Orwell matters. Play All Videos

Books by Hitchens

2012 Mortality. Twelve Books
2011 Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens. Twelve.
2011 The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism. Da Capo Press
2010 Hitch-22: A Memoir . Twelve/Hachette Book Group.
2007 god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Twelve/Hachette Book Group USA/Warner Books
2007 The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer. Perseus Publishing
2006 Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man": A Biography. Books That Shook the World/Atlantic Books
2005 Thomas Jefferson: Author of America. Eminent Lives/Atlas Books/HarperCollins Publishers
2004 Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays. Thunder's Mouth, Nation Books
2003 A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq. Plume Books
2002 Why Orwell Matters, Basic Books (US)/UK edition as Orwell's Victory, Allen Lane/The Penguin Press.
2001 The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Verso.
2001 Letters to a Young Contrarian. Basic Books.
2000 Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere. Verso.
1999 No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton. Verso.
1997 Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger. Verso
1997 The Elgin Marbles: Should They Be Returned to Greece? (UK) Verso.
1995 The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice. Verso.
1993 For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports. Verso,
1990 The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favorite Fetish. Chatto & Windus
1990 Blood, Class, and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies. Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
1988 Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports. Hill and Wang (US)/Chatto and Windus (UK).
1987 Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles. Chatto and Windus (UK)/Hill and Wang (US, 1988)
1984 Cyprus. Quartet.

As co-author or co-editor

2011 Hitchens vs. Blair: Be it resolved that religion is a force of good in the world. House of Anansi Press
2010 The Best American Essays 2010. Mariner Books
2008 Is Christianity Good for the World? – A Debate (co-author, with Douglas Wilson). Canon Press
2008 Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq and the Left (with Simon Cottee and Thomas Cushman). New York University Press.
2002 Left Hooks, Right Crosses: A Decade of Political Writing (co-editor, with Christopher Caldwell)
1994 When Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds (with Ed Kashi). Pantheon Books
1994 International Territory: The United Nations, 1945-1995 (with Adam Bartos). Verso
1988 Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question (contributor; co-editor with Edward Said). Verso
1981 Inequalities in Zimbabwe (with David Stephen).Minority Rights Group
1976 Callaghan, The Road to Number Ten (with Peter Kellner). Cassell

As contributor

2010 The Sixties: Diaries:1960-1969. Christopher Isherwood. HarperCollins.
2010 Civilization and Its Discontents. Edited by James Strachey. W.W. Norton & Company
2010 New Threats to Freedom. Edited by Adam Bellow. Templeton Press.
2005 A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq, Thomas Cushman (editor). University of California Press
2003 Animal Farm and 1984. George Orwell. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Introduction by CH.
2000 Vanity Fair's Hollywood, Graydon Carter and David Friend (editors). Viking Studio
2000 Safe Area Gorazde, Fantagraphics
1998 After Diana: Irreverent Elegies. Mandy Merck. Verso

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