Over the next year heĮxperienced the full force of modern cancer treatment. Hitchens proposes instead that the world might be a great deal better offĭuring the American book tour to promote his memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens collapsed in his hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest.

Religion, arguing that the concept of an omniscient God has profoundly damaged humanity. God Is Not Great marvels at the possibility of society without With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's awesome view of the universe and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix. Man-made, dangerously sexually repressive and distorts the very origins of the cosmos. In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts, he demonstrates the ways in which religion is Hitch-22 is, by turns, moving and funny, charming and infuriating, enraging and inspiring an indispensable companion to the life and thought of a pre-eminent political writer.Ĭhristopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. He retraces the footsteps of his life to date, recalling the girls, boys and booze the friendships and the feuds the grand struggles and lost causes and the mistakes and misgivings that have characterized his life. Hitch-22 is the candid memoir of one of the world's most influential public intellectuals: Christopher Hitchens.

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