What was the best selling book Hitchens published?
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Christopher Hitchens was the author of "God Is Not Great" and was named among the "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by "Foreign Policy" and "Prospect" magazines. In addition, Hitchens served on the advisory board of the Secular Coalition for America. In 2010 Hitchens published his memoir "Hitch-22" (a nickname provided by close personal friend Salman Rushdie, whom Hitchens always supported during and following "The Satanic Verses" controversy). Shortly after its publication, Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, which led to his death in December 2011. Before his death, Hitchens published a collection of essays and articles in his book "Arguably"; a short edition "Mortality" was published posthumously in 2012. These publications and numerous public appearances provided Hitchens with a platform to remain an astute atheist during his illness, even speaking specifically on the culture of deathbed conversions and condemning attempts to convert the terminally ill, which he opposed as "bad taste".
New Atheism
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God Is Not Great is a 2007 book by Anglo-American author and journalist Christopher Hitchens, in which he makes a case against organized religion. It was originally published in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Books as God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion and in the United States by Twelve as God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, but was republished by Atlantic Books in 2017 with no subtitle.
God Is Not Great
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In 2014, her best-selling book 'WHAT THE **** IS NORMAL?! was published by Random House to critical acclaim. It has been nominated for the Chortle Comedy 'Best Book' Award and The Bread And Roses Radical Publishing Award. She was described as one of 'Britain's Five Funniest Women' in the Guardian in Nov 2014 along with Bridget Christie, Sara Pascoe, Katherine Ryan and Susan Calman.
Francesca Martinez
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published his usual stack of important books during the course of 2001. Most noted was his case for the prosecution of Henry Kissinger for war crimes. History's least deserving Nobel Peace Prize recipient was forced to respond to Hitchens's proposal, and that alone could have made "The Trial of Henry Kissinger" the standout Hitchens text of the year. Yet, it is not. The finest book by Hitchens, and possibly the finest book of the year, is a short tome on how to assault contemporary hypocrisies by the man who has taken on every deity from Mother Teresa to Princess Di. "Letters to a Young Contrarian" [...] is a rough mix of autobiography and intellectual self-help advice. It is delicious because it showcases Hitchens at his most savage and wise (he reveals a warm spot for the under-appreciated utopian radicalism of William Morris and his circle). Above all, "Letters to a Young Contrarian" is necessary for its exploration of the role of the dissenter in a time of too much politeness. "Seek out argument and disputation for its own sake," Hitchens urges. "The grave will provide plenty of time for silence."
Letters to a Young Contrarian
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James Ley of "The Sydney Morning Herald", while stating that "there is much about Hitchens's support for Bush that still sits oddly", nevertheless lauded the work as "probably the best all-round selection of [Hitchens's] writings yet published. [...] Hitchens is an effortlessly engaging writer and a famously pugnacious commentator, but the sheer scope of "Love, Poverty and War" is testament to his erudition. There are few writers who can turn from a long and detailed reassessment of the legacy of Winston Churchill to the work of Marcel Proust and feel equally at home." In "Prospect", David Herman argued that the collection solidified Hitchens as "one of the best literary and cultural critics of the past 20 years", praising the author's writings on Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Proust, and "The Adventures of Augie March". David Free of "The Australian" wrote that the essays written in the wake of the September 11 attacks "will go down as classics of American journalism."
Love, Poverty, and War
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Shortly after release, "Cosmos" became the best-selling science book ever published in the English language, and was the first science book to sell more than half a million copies. Though spurred in part by the popularity of the television series, "Cosmos" became a best-seller by its own regard, reaching hundreds of thousands of readers. It was only surpassed in the late 1980s by Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" (1988). "Cosmos" spent 50 weeks on the "Publishers Weekly" best-seller's list, and 70 weeks on the "New York Times" Best Seller list. "Cosmos" sold over 900,000 copies while on these lists, and continued popularity has allowed "Cosmos" to sell about five million copies internationally. Shortly after "Cosmos" was published, Sagan received a $2 million advance for the novel "Contact". This was the largest release given for an unwritten fiction book at the time. The success of "Cosmos" made Sagan "wealthy as well as famous." It also ushered in a dramatic increase in visibility for science books, opening up new options and readership for the previously fledgling genre. Science historian Bruce Lewenstein of Cornell University noted that among science books ""Cosmos" marked the moment that something different was clearly going on."
Cosmos (Carl Sagan book)
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Questions That Sell – The Powerful Process for Discovering What Your Customer Really Wants (AMACOM) was published in 2006. A second edition (HarperCollins Leadership) was released in 2017. Questions That Sell was identified and ranked as one of the “100 Best Sales Books of All Time” by "BookAuthority" and has been published in four languages. The book has received numerous positive reviews. "CRM Magazine" states, “Cherry gives readers key questions that get orders and a process to uncover the real needs of their customers.” Michael C. Gray of "Profit Advisors" comments, “Questions That Sell is advanced sales education material that will be valuable for anyone who needs to persuade others.”. "WeZBest" states: “This great book was written for salespeople, but it’s relevant to non-sales professionals; all of us are selling every single day.”. Dan Beaulieu of "I-Connect007" writes: “He makes us realize that questioning is an art, a craft that must be studied and perfected.”.
Paul Cherry (author)
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Bruce DeSilva considered the book to be the best piece of atheist writing since Bertrand Russell's "Why I Am Not a Christian" (1927), with Hitchens using "elegant yet biting prose". He concludes that "Hitchens has nothing new to say, although it must be acknowledged that he says it exceptionally well".
God Is Not Great
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Arguably: Essays is a 2011 book by Christopher Hitchens, comprising 107 essays on a variety of political and cultural topics. These essays were previously published in "The Atlantic", "City Journal", "Foreign Affairs", "The Guardian", "Newsweek", "New Statesman", "The New York Times Book Review", "Slate", "Times Literary Supplement", "The Wall Street Journal", "The Weekly Standard", "The Wilson Quarterly", and "Vanity Fair". "Arguably" also includes introductions that Hitchens wrote for new editions of several classic texts, such as "Animal Farm" and "Our Man in Havana". Critics' reviews of the collection were largely positive.
Arguably
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Writing in the "New Statesman", Anthony Howard saw the book as "a hotchpotch of separate essays" and that, though Hitchens mounts a spirited defence of his beliefs, he nevertheless resembles "some faintly out-of-date figure searching the kitchen for any pot or pan he can hurl against the spirit of the age".
In a review in "The Guardian", Steven Poole described Hitchens as being "in general exhilaratingly good when attacking the hypocrisies and stupidities of specific individuals", and wrote that the "best parts" of the book describe "scenes of foreign reporting, such as an alarming visit to Vilnius in 1991, where Soviet forces massacred Lithuanian nationalists". However, Poole also added that the book resorted too much to cultural generalisation.
The Broken Compass
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Hitchens was a vocal supporter of Republicanism in the United Kingdom, advocating the abolition of the Monarchy, and in 1990 published the book-long polemic "The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish". His 1998 documentary "Princess Diana: The Mourning After" accused the British media of playing an essential role in creating a national, unchallengeable, and at times hysterical cult of personality surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, whereas previously they had been extremely critical of her and the monarchy after she had separated and divorced from Charles, Prince of Wales, and was having an affair with Egyptian billionaire son Dodi Fayed. Hitchens claimed the public were behaving irrationally, and that many appeared to not even know why they were mourning. He also scrutinised the level of censorship against criticism of Diana and the monarchy but was accused, in a review by "The Independent", of exaggerating on this point.
Political views of Christopher Hitchens