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In this widely acclaimed biographical essay, Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the achievements, and the myth of the great political writer and participant George Orwell. In true emulative and contrarian style, Hitchens is both admiring and aggressive, sympathetic yet critical, taking true measure of his subject as hero and problem. Answering both the detractors and the false claimants, Hitchens tears down the façade of sainthood erected by the hagiographers and rebuts the critics point by point. He examines Orwell and his perspectives on fascism, empire, feminism, and Englishness, as well as his outlook on America, a country and culture towards which he exhibited much ambivalence.
Whether thinking about empires or dictators, race or class, nationalism or popular culture, Orwell's moral outlook remains indispensable in a world that has undergone vast changes in the fifty years since his death. Combining the best of Hitchens's polemical punch and intellectual elegance in a tightly woven and subtle argument, this book addresses not only why Orwell matters today, but how he will continue to matter in a future, uncertain world.
Christopher Hitchens, one of the most incisive minds of our own age, meets Orwell on the page in this provocative encounter of wit, contention and moral truth.
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A Defense and Appreciation of Orwell.......2007-08-12
I am a huge fan of George Orwell. I consider him one of the handful of great writers of the twentieth century. His novel, 1984, remains one of my favorites and no one can deny its influence on our culture. Additionally, he wrote a number of wonderful memoirs and essays which retain an incredible impact and currency even up to seventy years later. It is nice to see a critic of the stature of Mr. Hitchens also has an admiration for Orwell.
In this slim volume, Mr. Hitchens analyzes various aspects of Orwell's work and its relationship to ideas that still resonate: imperialism, the left, the right, America, feminism, post-modernism, etc. No one will deny that Orwell had weaknesses as a writer. There is a generally tone of pessimism that runs through his work. He could take unfair potshots at people in his essays and he often struggled to create vibrant characters in his fiction, especially females. Mr. Hitchens acknowledges his weakness but is pointed about countering unfair criticism and makes the excellent point that Orwell always struggled to overcome his own prejudices. Unlike many of us, Orwell recognized his prejudices and was constantly trying to beat them down. Perhaps this is why much of his writing remains so relevant: he was generally very balanced in his opinions and cut through the crap to the truth as he saw it. He rarely gave anyone a pass. Which also may be why so many people like to criticize Orwell: everyone got pierced by him at some point.
If there are weakness in Hitchens' book, two stand out. First, Mr. Hitchens shares the smugness of a person who revels in his own intellect and he doesn't hide it in his prose. Like Harold Bloom, Hitchens can be irritating to read but he always leaves you with something worth thinking about. The second is not a criticism per se, but a warning: to get a lot out of this book you should be familiar with a large cross-section of Orwell's writing. Having read 1984 and, maybe, Animal Farm is not enough. I have read a lot of Orwell's stuff and there were still references and critics with which I was not familiar. Still, for anyone interested in Orwell, this is a valuable book.
Hitchen's overly erudite style makes t his short book dificult for the non-Orwell specialist to enjoy.......2007-07-30
George Orwell (real name: Eric Blair) took his pseudonym from the English nation's Saint George and a British river. He died young at 47 due to the TB disease he could not conquer. Orwell is an important writer as we face the already bloody twenty-first century. Call Mr. Orwell a prophet of our dystopia world of Darfar, terrorism and North Korea. Orwell is used as a text in many scholastic settings. Orwell is best known for "1984" and "Animal Farm. The latter is a satire of the evils of communism while 1984 paints a grim future of Big Brother and Mind Controlling goverment.
This book is not a biography but an exteneded essay divided into short chapters. Hitchens gives kudos to Orwell for being an opponent of fascism, communism and the imperialism he saw first hand while serving as a Police Officer in Burma. This anti-imperialistic view led to his fine novel "Burmese Days." Orwell broadcast on the BBC. penned excellent short stories and several novels which are now forgotten by the general public.
Hitchens has a keen mind and is very knowledgable on Orwell. The problem is that he assumes a prior knowledge of Orwell's works. This is a book for scholars and not the general reader. I have read several of Hitchens works but this one was not my favorite!
If you admire Orwell, read this book..........2007-05-17
I admire Orwell, so I read the book. It presupposes a familiarity with the man and his oeuvre, so if you've never read a word by Orwell, this book may not be a good starting gate. The author, Christopher Hitchens, admires Orwell, too, and has a distinctive--dare I say quintessentially English--droll style. If you know Hitchens, you know what to expect: no hero-worship, no nonsense, and no pulled polemical punches against the hapless folks who nip at Orwell's heels for some perceived heresy or another. (One quibble with Hitchens: he includes Burmese Days as part of Orwell's inferior juvenilia...I think, after an admittedly shaky start, Burmese Days is outstanding, and does not deserve such comparative obloquy.)
No human being is above reproach, but Orwell definitely does have an overwhelming aura of decency about him...notwithstanding his distaste for fags, feminists, and what would be called "hippies" back then. (The group he hated most, however, would probably be rentier capitalists...of which I'm one!) The politically incorrect Orwell is thoroughly examined by Hitchens, who adduces reasons why he feels Orwell came to hold such views, and why they do not vitiate his mainstream moral and ethical legacy.
This decency--along with his vast literary ability and remarkable prescience--makes the man an attractive and relevant historical figure today...one who has added his nom de plume to the English lexicon as an adjective, and whose name and works will be remembered and discussed long after his critics have been utterly forgotten.
The truth about the truth.......2007-01-01
In this book Hitchens demonstrates to us the continuing relevance of a person who always kept an open mind and stayed true to principles. Throughout his career Orwell kept free of the ideological blindness that justifies so many sins by that one condemns in some but justifies in others in the name of serving a 'higher truth'. While clearly of the left he never blindly accepted its many sins in the name of some abstract greater good, or ultimate triumph. This book reminds us all of the necessity to keep an open eye and mind regardless of what our views are, or who we see as our natural allies.
one great political analyst on another.......2006-04-23
Gore Vidal, who has passed into political senilty with such views as that Bush may have orchestrated 9/11, at least had the good sense to 'designate' Hitchens as his literary successor. It's a great choice, as Hitchens is learned, knows everyone, and has a style equal to Vidal's in the old liberal's heyday. Moreover Hitchens can devote time to a booklength analysis of someone as important as Orwell, whereas Vidal was evidently too involved with movies and novels to manage more than short essays on his analysands.
I was particularly impressed with Hitchens' attacks on those postmodernists who feel free to deconstruct history without regard to objective truth. In his view Orwell's plain language, derived from intellectual honesty and, says Hitchens, his rational Protestantism, assist the Englishman in formulating the truth. Unlike a certain comical French philosopher, Orwell would never deny that the 1991 Gulf War took place; nor, one supposes, could he agree with the cretinous American professor Ward Churchill that the vicitims of 9/11 were diminutive Nazis. Simple respect for truth and plain language prohibit such travesties.
Alas, to many Orwell or rather Big Brother is a symbol of George W Bush these days. How can that be, when Big Brother is obviously the likes of Ahmadinejad and Jong Il and their ilk? We had better figure out who the enemy is.
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Orwell's Example. (Books).(Book Review): An article from: Policy Review
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Title: Why Orwell matters.(Interview)
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Orwell Matters Immensely.......2005-08-10
In this critically acclaimed essay, Christopher Hitchens, in his usual contrarian's irreverent style explores the life and myth of a great political writer and moral philosopher, George Orwell, (1903-1950). Hitchens is both admiring and critical of his hero answering both Orwell's detractors and political claimants on the left and right of the political spectrum. Orwell lives to see the rise of Imperialism, Fascism and Stalinism and critically rebukes all three political systems in his writings. Orwell had first hand experience in seeing the wonton depravity of Imperialism while serving as a policeman in Burma. He witnessed the absurdity of Fascism and Stalinism while serving as a volunteer soldier in the Spanish Civil War fighting for the "Workers Party, (POUM). Besides writing classics like "Animal Farm and "1984" he was the first person to coin the phrase "Cold War" in an essay he wrote about nuclear weapons. In 1946 he wrote an essay in which he foretold that Russia would either democratize or perish.
I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in political philosophy, and history.
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The Specht Journal: A Military Journal of the Burgoyne Campaign (Contributions in Military Studies)
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The Specht Journal is one of the major diaries written by Braunschweig military personnel during the Burgoyne campaign of the American Revolutionary War. From the departure from Wolfenbuttel on February 22, 1776 to the end on Winter Hill near Boston on November 9, 1777, the narrator faithfully accounts for each day of the ill-fated campaign. He describes the astonishing affair at Ticonderoga, the short battle at Hubbardton, and the toilsome march south to Fort Miller via Forts Ann and Edward. The campaign ends after two indecisive battles at Saratoga, where Burgoyne, without supplies and badly outnumbered, has to sign a "Convention" with the victorious American commander Horatio Gates.
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The Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy in 1943 were bloody and pivotal, securing the Mediterranean, capitalizing on the overthrow of Mussolini, and pinning down German troops that could have been used on the Russian Front or in France after D-Day. The men who made the Allied victories in Sicily and Italy possible—soldiers and officers, bombardiers and drivers, doctors and generals—are honored and remembered in these pages by famed war correspondent Richard Tregaskis.
Fresh from his memorable days in the field on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal, Tregaskis shares an intimate and rousing diary of the Sicilian and Italian campaigns. His experiences take him from bomb-bay doors over Rome to one of the few hotels left standing in devastated Palermo, Sicily, to the chaotic front lines in Italy, where he nearly died from a shrapnel wound. The gleaming ivory grips of Gen. George Patton’s pistol, the terrified face of a soldier engulfed by the hellfire of combat, the extraordinary skill of a military surgeon—the uniquely American features of the Second World War are unforgettably inscribed through the pen of Richard Tregaskis.
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Highly recommended reading for military buffs .......2004-08-09
Hard fought and with an enormous causality count, the 1943 Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy were critically important in overthrowing Mussolini, pinning down German troops so they could not be transferred for use on the Russian Front or to resent the Allies' western campaign that began with the Normandy D-Day invasions. Invasion Diary is the late journalist Richard Tregaskis (1916-1973) personal and diary based memoirs of witnessing the Sicilian and Italian campaigns including his near death from a shrapnel wound in the front lines of the Italian campaign. This eye-witness account is an invaluable addition to the growing library of World War II European Theatre literature and highly recommended reading for military buffs and the non-specialist general reader with an interest in 20th century American military history.
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This eyewitness account by an ensign in the Braunschweig Prinz Friedrich Regiment brings the Northern Campaign of the American Revolution vividly to life. This journal tells about events around Fort Ticonderoga, military ways, life in Quebec, and crossing the Atlantic in the late 1700s. Helga Doblin has translated the work, and Mary C. Lynn provides an introduction and notes that put the account into the context of those times. A map and illustrations enhance the volume, made accessible by two indexes. Students of military history and of Colonial America, and those in upstate New York and Quebec who would like to know more about life there 300 years ago, will find this work informative and entertaining. It brings the Revolution and the Northern Campaign in New York and Quebec vividly to life.
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1861 edition by Murray, London.
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1861 edition by John Murray, London.
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An extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at the 2004 presidential election reported by Newsweek's premier political reporters, including bestselling biographer Evan Thomas.
A full year before the presidential election, four Newsweek reporters are detached from the magazine to work fulltime on getting inside the campaigns of the Republican and Democratic candidates. Because Newsweek promises not to reveal any information until after the votes are cast, the reporters receive highly unusual access. They travel with the candidates, live at their headquarters, befriend their staffs. They blend into the background, where they watch and listen.
Evan Thomas has been the writer for this project for the last three elections, and each time, he has brilliantly woven together an award-winning narrative of the campaign, based on the reporting of the Newsweek team. The goal is a rich narrative, a telling, human, and personal story of the extraordinary ordeal of running for the presidency. The characters are the candidates, their families, and their top advisers. They battle uncertainty, exhaustion, a hostile media, and each other in a high-stakes contest that can produce only one winner. The 2004 election promises to be drama of a high order, a close, tense, bitter struggle in a deeply divided country caught in a strange and hard war. Newsweek's reporters will be there at the critical moments, recording the scenes that will decide the outcome.
After the election, the Newsweek team will produce an expanded version of the stories that appeared in the magazine and Thomas will write an essay on the new administration, its key players and its prospects, the tone and direction it is expected to set. The book that emerges will be a first draft of history--not rough, but knowing and deeply reported.
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OK but not great.......2007-09-14
I love the backstage info and the reports about the personalities and interactions on the campaign staff. The Newsweek folks certainly saw a lot that was not reported at the time.
My biggest disappointment is that it did not live up to the billing in the title. The subtitle says "How BC04 won and what you can expect in the future." Well, whoever wrote the title forgot to tell the authors about the second half of that subtitle.
The only mention the future in the final chapter (a mere 12 pages) and even then it isn't really about Election 2008 (the title of the chapter), its more about how Bush and Kerry reacted after the election and how second term presidents generally screw up.
Is it slanted? Yes. As another reviewer (Marc Dalesandro 031505) said, they had good access to Kerry but Bush and Co. kept them at arms length. That same reviewer had some great examples of biased terms used in describing different people and events.
Besides his examples, the most obvious to me were in that same last chapter where, for example, in discussing what Bush _could_ do as a second term president the authors suggest he take on liberal answers to Social Security (raise retirement to 70 and raise taxes on "the rich").
Bottom line: good inside detail about some of the campaign machinations, liberal bias is there but not overwhelming, nonexistent information about what the future would be like.
Interesting but incomplete .......2006-04-14
I read this book in one night and found it to be very interesting. I did enjoy reading some of the behind the scenes stuff like John Kerry's tantrum in the back of the campaign limo when his personal assistant could not find his hair brush. However that had been in Newsweek before and as well as on Drudge's website. New inside information about the campaign is not really a quality aspect of this publication. Since I paid attention to the campaign this publication served more as a summary or a reminder of events.
Also Newsweek's publication seems to form a lot of bias opinions about why people voted the way they did, often citing minor campaign footnotes. There is virtually no information regarding the inner thoughts of the president, which I guess is not unusual considering lack of trust of the mainstream media and being a wartime president. The publication also brushes over important political divides and the importance of the war on terror.
If you are not deeply knowledgable of presidential campaigns this may be a good read for you. If you consider yourself more of an expert you might want to find a more complete or indepth account. The book is slightly liberal but overall fair. I think the authors made false claims about the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth however. I feel the main reason Kerry is a loser is not because President Bush is so great, but he does have a determination and discipline to admire...The big reason is he never connected with the voters. For all of Kerry's strengths he is really an out of touch insider liberal elitist.
Bush and GOP stole this election just like they did the last and look where our country's heading?.......2005-11-28
Down the toilet. But don't worry. We got Howard Dean who ain't afraid to come to my state and others and help bring in real democracy to America rather than put up with Bush/Limbaughian rant of bringing fake democracy to Iraq while stealing elections here at home and doing everything they can to turn America into a corporate fascism.
Feels incomplete.......2005-09-11
Certainly the privileged access that Thomas and his team makes for an insightful account of the 2004 election, drawing back to the nomination process. Pity for Kerry's plight, a hint of disdain for Bush and his coterie, are peppered throughout the narrative. Throughout, a lot of very interesting inside information is revealed in the book as well. Ultimately, I walked away feeling that the election was more lost by Kerry than won by Bush. Kerry's situation is blamed on his indecisiveness, his lack of trust in his his team, his poor people management skills, and his wife's attitude. There is not as much of the inside-scoop on the BC04 side perhaps, from an emotional perspective, as Kerry. And while Howard Dean takes a beating by the authors, we learn very little about John Edwards, who may in fact be the nominee in 2008.
What was most disappointing is the fractured prose. There is nothing really holding the book together, except for the theme of the book itself. The structure is there but the information and opinions often feel disjointed. Events and reports are presented in chronological order, but there is no flow, and the authors tend to jump from one nugget to the next without any bridge. Once in a while, interesting sub-themes are left hanging and incomplete. Perhaps the publisher rushed the book to print or simply didn't recognize the value added of adding this important finishing touch. Other career reporters have assembled excellent books on presidental elections 2000, 1996, 1992 (see Roger Simon) and I feel that Thomas and his team could have done a lot better than just throwing together their reports and conclusions on E04.
In the end, I appreciated the book for its detail and information, but found it poorly pieced together, which detracted from my enjoying the experience as much as I would have liked.
Adequate.......2005-08-29
Election 2004, works as a good primer to one of the most important presidential campaigns in US history. Yet Newsweek did a less than fair job in its reporting from both camps.
E-04 could have used a bit more editorial help as well as a bias check; it doesn't flow very well and overlooks important things, ignoring some downright. I do think that the criticisms directed against Kerry were slanted; I was so un-happy with Newsweek's coverage that I actually dropped my subscription. It is no coincidence either that most of the books recommended in this website along with this one are favorable to the right. To be fair, this book does report on Kerry's own unfavorable response to Newsweek' coverage; a gesture of intellectual honesty Thomas should be given credit for.
More would have been appreciated about Kerry's ill-conceived campaign and lack of message and Rove's focused, dirty and eventually successful, tricks. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth; an obvious re-visitation of veterans against McCain in 2000 don't get the right coverage. Neither does Kerry's refusal to go against Bush's personal attacks, and failure to address the plethora of Bush's mistakes in the last two months, which decidedly cost him the election. We get very little on these points from the book. In one of the mildly insightful moments, Thomas reports that the electorate had a hard-time distinguishing Kerry's position on the war from Bush's, and consequently voted for the more stable looking candidate. This I thought was a very accurate point.
As a pet peeve, I always bought the whole Kerry's "Come-Back Kid" attitude, I even heard some of his former opponents on the right praise him for it. This book debunks it, and informs us this was just a campaign myth his people were trying to promote, which looking back on, makes sense.
One of the conclusions in E-04 was that Kerry lost partly as a result of his comments on Mary Cheney on the third debate (this is suggested and not said outright). This is just not true; although Kerry's comment was un-called for and served no purpose (I winced when he said it), I don't think that so much of the electorate was so turned off by it that they ended up voting for Bush, who ran on an anti-gay marriage platform. How much sense does that make? This assessment shows a lack of touch with the real issues on the part of Newsweek. In the following weeks the Republican camp did a lot to discredit Kerry on this point, but it is not pointed out by E-04 that Alan Keyes, a conservative republican running for the senate seat against Obama in Illinois had called Mary Cheney a "selfish hedonist" and received nary a comment from the now -conveniently- outraged Cheneys. This should have been noted in the book. I don't need Newsweek to editorialize, but I do want perspective.
Then there's Ohio. Although I'm not one for conspiracy theories there was obvious foul play in the weeks preceding and on election day; from Secretary of State Blackwell's flip-flapping on voting regulations, to the Rove people calling people in strong democratic precincts by phone and advising them to vote at the wrong places, to the lack of a voting records paper trail. Yes, there are irregularities on every election, but when all the irregularities favor the same candidate, I get a bit skeptical. Alas, this subject seemed too controversial for Newsweek.
Newsweek's coverage fails for one of these counts; they were either so engrossed in the process of reporting that they overlooked what for them, and not the electorate, was obvious, or they got so close to the campaigns they were covering that their judgment was impaired. I felt I was better informed by other sources during the election.
Campaign 2004 is at best an ok primer and at worst, a slightly biased account in need of some editorial cohesion.
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Inside the presidential campaigns.(BOOKS)(Book Review): An article from: Campaigns & Elections
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Conservation Directory 2005-2006: The Guide To Worldwide Environmental Organizations (Conservation Directory)
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The 2005-2006 edition of the National Wildlife Federation Conservation Directory is the most comprehensive listing of conservation and environmental organizations ever published, with information on over 4,000 government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and colleges and universities, as well as more than 18,000 officials concerned with environmental conservation, education, and natural resource use and management.
Each entry contains detailed contact information including names, addresses, and telephone and fax numbers; also included are selected e-mail and Internet addresses, descriptions of program areas, senior staff by name and responsibility, principal publications, and more. Entries are categorized by organization type and state or country, and indexed alphabetically and by subject, on subjects ranging from acid rain to zoology. Each person listed in the directory is also indexed alphabetically.
Included are listings of: U.S. Congress members, including committees and subcommittees; State, provincial, and federal agencies in the U.S. and Canada; National and international governmental organizations; U.S., Canadian, and international nongovernmental organizations; Colleges and universities with conservation programs; Parks, refuges, and other protected areas; Conservation information resources.
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2001 Conservation Directory.......2004-08-29
This volume covers every government agency covering environmental concerns. Federally Protected Areas are described
together with the names and addresses of the supervisory governmental agencies. For instance, the federal agency for
Virginia and Eastern States is located at 7450 Boston Blvd.
Springfield VA 2253 703-440-1713.
The National Estuarine Research Reserves and National Forests
are located at the Bard College Field Station at 914-758-7033
This work would be valuable to a wide constituency of government planners and professionals in academe.
Great Resource.......2000-05-10
This is a must for conservation education professionals. The numerous indexes and summary descriptions of organizations are wonderful.
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- A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
- A Leg to Stand On
- A Memoir of Jane Austen: and Other Family Recollections (Oxford World's Classics)
- A Year in the Maine Woods
- American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964
- Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey
- As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
- Bernadette Speaks: A Life of St. Bernadette Soubirous in Her Own Words
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