Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens (Unabridged)

Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens UNABRIDGED by Christopher Hitchens Narrated by Simon Prebble LENGTH 28 hrs and 26 mins The first new collection of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004, Arguably offers an indispensable key to understanding the passionate and skeptical spirit of one of our most dazzling writers, widely admired for the clarity of his style, a result of his disciplined and candid thinking. Topics range from ruminations on why Charles Dickens was among the best of writers and the worst of men to the haunting science fiction of J.G. Ballard; from the enduring legacies of Thomas Jefferson and George Orwell to the persistent agonies of anti-Semitism and jihad. Hitchens even looks at the recent financial crisis and argues for the enduring relevance of Karl Marx. The book forms a bridge between the two parallel enterprises of culture and politics. It reveals how politics justifies itself by culture, and how the latter prompts the former. In this fashion, Arguably burnishes Christopher Hitchens' credentials as - to quote Christopher Buckley - our "greatest living essayist in the English language." Rip notes: Converted from AA to 96k VBR mp3 then gapless split into 5 minute chunks. Comments are greatly appreciated and : Please Seed! Enjoy!!

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frakattack (2011-10-10)

Thank you so much :D
will seed forever

hsinghg (2012-03-26)

Seriously can't thank you enough mate. There's nothing more precious in this world than true knowledge, perspective and reason

ut1880h (2012-06-17)

This collection not only reveals Hitchens brilliance, it's also narrated by the perfect voice for his style.
Thanks much for the upload.

Hitchslap79 (2012-11-29)

The swan song of the most brilliant mind of our times.
I hope another man like this emerges one day.
Massive kudos to the uploader.

amymizushima (2013-11-06)

Here are the times where each essay starts and which tracks they are on. ;)
• Track 001 (0:28) Introduction
• Track 003 (2:55) ALL AMERICAN. Gods of our fathers: the United States of enlightenment
• Track 005 (3:31) The private Jefferson
• Track 007 (2:37) Jefferson vs. the Muslim pirates
• Track 011 (3:58) Benjamin Franklin: free and easy
• Track 015 (0:48) John Brown: the man who ended slavery
• Track 018 (1:03) Abraham Lincoln: misery's child
• Track 020 (4:09 Mark Twain: American radical
• Track 023 (4:24) Upton Sinclair: a capitalist primer
• Track 027 (0:00) JFK: in sickness and by stealth
• Track 030 (4:24) Saul Bellow: the great assimilator
• Track 034 (3:25) Vladimir Nabokov: Hurricane Lolita
• Track 038 (1:15) John Updike: No way ; Mr. Geniality
• Track 042 (4:53) Vidal Loco
• Track 045 (0:53) America the Banana Republic
• Track 047 (2:41) An Anglosphere future
• Track 052 (0:38) Political animals
• Track 056 (4:24) Old enough to die
• Track 059 (4:38) In defense of foxhole atheists
• Track 063 (1:37) In search of the Washington novel
• Track 065 (3:54) ECLECTIC AFFINITIES. Isaac Newton: flaws of gravity
• Track 067 (4:28) The men who made England: Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall"
• Track 071 (3:39) Edmund Burke: reactionary prophet
• Track 077 (4:10) Samuel Johnson: demons and dictionaries
• Track 080 (2:22) Gustave Flaubert: I'm with Stupide
• Track 082 (2:16) The dark side of Dickens
• Track 084 (3:54) Marx's journalism: the Grub Street years
• Track 090 (0:18) Rebecca West: things worth fighting for
• Track 105 (2:41) Ezra Pound: a revolutionary simpleton
• Track 107 (4:52) On "Animal Farm"
• Track 112 (0:12) Jessica Mitford's poison pen
• Track 114 (2:08) W. Somerset Maugham: Poor Old Willie
• Track 118 (1:31) Evelyn Waugh: the permanent adolescent
• Track 125 (2:51) P. G. Wodehouse: The Honorable Schoolboy
• Track 130 (2:53) Anthony Powell: An Omnivorous Curiosity
• Track 136 (3:35) John Buchan: Spy Thriller's Father
• Track 140 (0:21) Graham Greene: I'll be damned
• Track 145 (2:45) Death from a salesman: Graham Greene's bottle ontology
• Track 152 (1:59) Loving Philip Larkin
• Track 156 (4:14) Stephen Spender: a nice bloody fool
• Track 160 (2:55) Edward Upward: the captive mind
• Track 163 (2:41) C. L. R. James: mid off, not right on
• Track 166 (0:05) J. G. Ballard: the catastrophist
• Track 168 (2:09) Fraser's Flashman: scoundrel time
• Track 171 (2:30) Fleet Street's finest: from Waugh to Frayn
• Track 175 (3:51) Saki: where the wild things are
• Track 178 (0:03) Harry Potter: the boy who lived
• Track 181 (0:17) AMUSEMENTS, ANNOYANCES, AND DISAPPOINTMENTS. Why women aren't funny
• Track 184 (2:06) Stieg Larsson: the author who played with fire
• Track 187 (1:17) As American as apple pie
• Track190 (4:14) So many men's rooms, so little time
• Track 192 (0:58) The new commandments
• Track 196 (0:35) In your face
• Track 197 (1:20) Wine drinkers of the world, unite
• Track 198 (1:40) Charles, Prince of Piffle
• Track 199 (3:24) OFFSHORE ACCOUNTS. Afghanistan's dangerous bet
• Track 204 (4:54) First, silence the whistle-blower
• Track 206 (1:11) Believe me, it's torture
• Track 209 (2:04) Iran's waiting game
• Track 215 (1:45) Long live democratic seismology
• Track 216 (3:38) Benazir Bhutto: daughter of destiny
• Track 217 (4:41) From Abbottabad to worse
• Track 220 (3:50) The perils of partition
• Track 226 (4:53) Algeria: a French quarrel
• Track 229 (1:23) The case of Orientalism
• Track 231 (3:20) Edward Said: where the Twain should have met
• Track 235 (4:10) The swastika and the cedar
• Track 238 (2:19) Holiday in Iraq
• Track 241 (3:20) Tunisia: at the desert's edge
• Track 244 (2:32) What happened to the suicide bombers of Jerusalem?
• Track 245 (3:33) Childhood's end: an African nightmare
• Track 248 (3:40) The Vietnam Syndrome
• Track 252 (1:18) Once upon a time in Germany
• Tra

amymizushima (2013-11-06)

• Track 252 (1:18) Once upon a time in Germany
• Track 254 (3:41) Worse than "Nineteen Eighty-four"
• Track 256 (0:15) North Korea: A nation of racist dwarves
• Track 257 (2:31) The eighteenth brumaire of the Castro dynasty
• Track 259 (0:00) Hugo Boss
• Track 260 (2:12) Is the Euro doomed?
• Track 261 (3:41) Overstating Jewish power
• Track 263 (1:50) The case for humanitarian intervention
• Track 268 (0:17) LEGACIES OF TOTALITARIANISM. Victor Serge: pictures from an inquisition
• Track 272 (4:08) André Malraux: one man's fate
• Track 276 (0:29) Arthur Koestler: the zealot
• Track 278 (1:06) Isabel Allende: Chile Redux
• Track 282 (4:37) The Persian version
• Track 286 (3:49) Martin Amis: lightness at midnight
• Track 293 (4:24) Imagining Hitler
• Track 299 (3:52) Victor Klemperer: survivor
• Track 303 (4:34) A war worth fighting
• Track 307 (2:12) Just give peace a chance?
• Track 309 (2:07) W. G. Sebald: requiem for Germany
• Track 314 (4:02) WORDS' WORTH. When the king saved God
• Track 319 (3:52) Let them eat pork rinds
• Track 322 (3:34) Stand up for Denmark!
• Track 324 (3:48) Eschew the taboo
• Track 325 (4:44) She's no fundamentalist
• Track 327 (1:52) Burned out
• Track 328 (2:42) Easter charade
• Track 329 (3:42) Don't mince words
• Track 331 (1:05) History and mystery
• Track 333 (0:00) Words matter
• Track 334 (1:28) This was not looting
• Track 335 (3:07) The "other" L-word
• Track 336 (4:42) The you decade
• Track 338 (0:42) Suck it up
• Track 339 (2:36) A very, very dirty word
• Track 340 (2:57) Prisoner of shelves.