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Welcome to the WBZ book Club.
I'm Jordan Rich Christopher Hitchins. He passed

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away in twenty eleven, but as
philosophy and writings do live on in a

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new book called A Hitch in Time
Reflections Ready for Reconsideration, and critics are

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calling it quintessential Hitchens. British born, he graduated from Oxford with a degree

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in philosophy, politics and economics.
Coming to the United States in the early

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eighties, writing for The Nation and
Vanity Fair, Christopher Hitchins was definitely opinionated,

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and that's putting it mildly. Considered
one of the four horsemen of the

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New Atheism movement, constantly engaging in
debate with other intellectuals on college campuses,

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online and on broadcast TV, and
when it came to politics, Hitchins was

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an equal opportunity critic of both conservatives
and liberals, Democrats and Republicans, Exceptionally

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eloquent, with a flair for biting
satire and the lyrical use of the English

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language that he loved so well.
He could make you furious, but you'd

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have to respect the intellect. A
hitchin Time Reflections Ready for Reconsideration. By

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the late Christopher Hitchins, The Book
Club. WZ Boston's news radio