Christopher Hitchens is a popular author, columnist, editor, and book critic. He writes regularly for numerous publications, including. The Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, Granta, and Harper's. His most recent books are Blood, Class, and Empire and A Long Short War. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Bestselling author Christopher Hitchins inspires future generations of radicals, rebels, and angry young men and women in these essays on the importance of disagreement to personal integrity, informed discussion, and democracy itself. The work is part of a series, "The Art of Mentoring," based on Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet. Hitchins is a popular columnist for Vanity Fair and The Nation. This work lacks a subject index. c. Book News Inc.