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From bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreement In Letters to a Young Contrarian, bestselling author and world-class provocateur Christopher Hitchens inspires the radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, and angry young (wo)men of tomorrow.
13 de abr. de 2005 · ISBN: 9780465030330. Number of pages: 160. Weight: 131 g. Dimensions: 202 x 124 x 14 mm. Buy Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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Part of the Art of Mentoring series, Letters to a Young Contrarian is a trim volume of about two dozen letters to an imaginary student of controversy. The letters are wonderfully engaging--Hitchens is an exceptional prose stylist--and from the outset they strike a self-reflective note.
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9 de dez. de 2001 · By Christopher Hitchens. Dec. 9, 2001. My dear X, So then -- you rather tend to flatter and embarrass me, when you inquire my advice as to how a radical or "contrarian" life may be lived. The ...
13 de abr. de 2012 · A Letter of Advice to Young Contrarians from Christopher Hitchens. By Maria Popova. Today would have marked the sixty-third birthday of acclaimed author and professional contrarian Christopher Hitchens, who succumbed to esophageal cancer last December. “One should try to write as if posthumously,” he famously — prophetically even, were ...
In my humble opinion, that is what the man would've desired to see in a young contrarian (feel free to disagree with me though). I suppose my only criticism of it is that it is far too short to provide an even view of the examples described therein, but I repeat that this is a synthesis: it is not enough to make an informed decision on big issues, but enough to comprehend the author.
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