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Eight years after William Manchester’s death, the final volume of “The Last Lion,” his epic biography of Winston Churchill, has finally appeared.
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Charlie Rose on BTV- Thursday, October 25, 2012 (Full Show For Mobile - Part 2) Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair and Carol Blue, widow of Christopher Hitchens discuss "Mortality", a collection of essays Hitchens wrote for Vanity Fair while undergoing treatment for cancer.
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I first met Christopher Hitchens some years ago at a panel put together by a publishing house. Our topic was, as I recall, the future of the public intellectual.
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Christopher Hitchens, the British- born journalist at home in the middle of U.S. political disputes including Bill Clinton’s infidelity, the war in Iraq and the role of organized religion, has died. He was 62.
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After Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa forced Salman Rushdie underground 23 years ago, his police protection team insisted on an alias. He chose Joseph Anton, uniting the first names of two favorite writers, Conrad and Chekhov.
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Gore Vidal, the prolific polemicist of the left whose novels, plays and commentary challenged fellow Americans to rethink textbook lessons about power and patriotism, has died. He was 86.
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Picnics, the late provocateur Christopher Hitchens wrote, are among the four most overrated things in life.
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George Orwell died in January 1950, two years and a month after finishing “1984”; he was only 46. More than six decades later, his complete diaries are being published in the U.S. for the first time.
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If there is a reason famous people die in threes, imagine the lively debates Vaclav Havel, Kim Jong Il and Christopher Hitchens are having in eternity’s waiting room.
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In May, almost 10 years after he engineered the bloodbath of Sept. 11, Osama bin Laden was finally hunted down and executed by U.S. forces in his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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