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Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Christopher hitchens was a world renowned and oftcontroversial philosopher, journalist, novelist and debater that spent the majority of his life involved in debates with those whose views he disagreed with, providing lectures and appearing on talk shows regularly throughout his professional career. A concise history of romania cambridge concise histories by keith hitchins 20140220 on. Aug 24, 2012 christopher hitchens covers islam nicely here. How religion poisons everything pdf about god is not great. Nor is the writing as bare bones and succinct as the oxford university press a very short introduction series. An experienced journalist, he spent the first part of his career in cyprus, where he met his first wife, eleni meleagrou. Christopher hitchenss most popular book is god is not great.
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