Blistering and timely interrogation of the politics and motives of an infamous ex-leftist
Richard Seymour is a writer, broadcaster and socialist, currently based in London. He writes regularly for the Guardian, the London Review of Books, Jacobin and many other publications.
Clever, incisive ... Unhitched offers a more thorough and in-depth
discrediting of Hitchens than anything previously published. And in
doing so, Seymour has made an important contribution to
understanding the political role of the intellectual celebrity in
our time.
*In These Times*
Richard Seymour's Unhitched, a slim and scathing denunciation of
turncoat scoundrel Christopher Hitchens, is a thoroughly satisfying
and politically important book by one of the few remaining great
radical left journalists.
*Rabble*
Seymour reveals Hitchens as having had a lifelong admiration both
for the United States and for empires as civilizing forces.
*Washington Post Book World*
Richard Seymour employs a unique technique to shred Hitchens's
political philosophy to pieces: Seymour puts the late writer on
trial.
*The Christian Science Monitor*
Well-argued ... I think Seymour rather pitied Hitchens, as the
married man pities the philanderer.
*Daily Telegraph*
He is not worthy of changing Christopher Hitchens's printer
cartridge.
*The Times*
A nasty piece of work ... (Full disclosure: Hitchens was a friend,
mentor, and neighbor of mine.)
*Newsweek*
Seymour's book offers an exciting counterbalance to the often
uncritical praise that has flowed heavily since Hitchens was
diagnosed with esophageal cancer in June 2010.
*Truthdig*
Seymour is certainly master of the records; he knows the work
closely and cites it scrupulously. But his headlong, foam-flecked
interpretation, voiced in a manner recklessly close to Hitchens's
own but without the grace, the wit, the tearing high spirits and
the faultless ear for the fall of a cadence of his great original,
becomes merely tedious, repetitive and unconvincing ... This little
book is 134 pages long. The author shouldn't have done it. It is
paltry and it is trivially abusive. Its subject was as eloquent,
cultivated, exuberant, unstoppable, sheerly gigantic a journalist
as British or American politics has known since George Orwell.
*Independent*
Caustic demolition of Hitchens-not dissimilar to Hitch's way with
Mother Teresa or the Clintons.
*The Big Issue In The North*
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