WHY ORWELL MATTERS by HITCHENS, CHRISTOPHER..(ORWELL, GEORGE ABOUT) - 2008

NY: MJF BOOKS.;.FINE COMMUNICATIONS pub. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2008. first THUS,2p; 1098765432 pt line. Hardcover. 8.4 X 5.7 X 1.0 inches. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(NOPR ICE) DUST JACKET; Silver titles on black spine strip...White hard covers..White endpapers...dj has large B&W photo portrait of orwell in mid age, ; 211 pages; Originally Published in Paperback....masterful polemicist Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the achievements, and the myth of the great political writer and participant George Orwell. True to his 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. .