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by Christopher Hitchens


  My American Journey (Powell), 257–58

  My Name Is Red (Pamuk), 30

  Nabokov, Vladimir, 57, 59, 60, 62

  Nader, Ralph, 48, 50

  Nafisi, Azar, Reading Lolita in Tehran, 247

  Nagy, Imre, 145

  Naipaul, Seepersad, 220, 223

  Naipaul, Shiva, 223–24

  Fireflies, 224

  North of South, 224

  Naipaul, V. S., 217–24

  An Area of Darkness, 221

  A Bend in the River, 219

  Beyond Belief, 222

  The Enigma of Arrival, 217

  Guerrillas, 221

  A House for Mr. Biswas, 220

  In a Free State, 223

  Miguel Street, 223

  A Way in the World, 223

  Namier, Lewis, 27

  Napoléon Bonaparte, 3, 230, 281

  Napoleon of Notting Hill, The (Chesterton), 307

  NASCAR, 73–76, 79

  Nasrallah, Hassan, 266, 267

  Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 37

  Nation, The, “What Is Patriotism?” (July 15/22, 1991), 321

  National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 110

  National Rifle Association (NRA), 112

  National Security Agency (NSA), 106, 107, 109, 110, 111

  National Security Council (NSC), 145

  NATO, 30, 253, 264

  Nazism, 308–10, 318

  Nehru, Jawaharlal, 207, 316

  Neruda, Pablo, 6n

  Neurach, Eva, 94–95

  New Deal, 116, 198

  New Frontier, 71, 117

  New Left, 117, 141

  Newman, Cardinal John Henry, 301–2, 305, 310

  Newman, Paul, 45

  New Republic, 27, 163

  New Review, 177

  Newsweek, 232, 249

  New Yorker, 165

  New York Review of Books, The, 124, 222

  “Che Guevara: Goodbye to All That” (July 17, 1997), 1–18

  “Orwell’s List” (September 26, 2002), 19–28

  Pamuk as contributor to, 30

  reports from Kashmir in, 67

  New York Times, 3, 11, 40, 88, 243, 247

  Ngo Dinh Diem, 244

  Nicholas I, Czar, 61

  Niebuhr, Reinhold, 116–17

  Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell), 19, 20, 22, 313–14, 316

  Niven, David, 99

  Nixon, Richard M., 41, 136, 198, 245

  and elections, 72, 200–201

  Ford’s pardon of, 201

  and Hungary, 145

  and impeachment, 111

  and Schlesinger, 200–201

  and Vietnam, 201, 287

  “No, I’m Not Byron” (Lermontov), 58

  Noonan, Peggy, 233

  No One Left to Lie To (Hitchens), 213

  Norgay, Tenzing, 211

  Norquist, Grover, 112

  North Korea, 227

  North of South (S. Naipaul), 224

  Nouvelle Revue Française, 21

  Nugent, S. Georgia, 46

  Obama administration, 247, 249

  Obama, Barack Hussein, 225, 229–34, 243

  The Audacity of Hope, 230–31

  Dreams from My Father, 231–32

  O’Brien, Conor Cruise, 201

  O’Connor, Father John, 299

  O’Connor, Leo, 106, 107

  O’Dell, Walden, 50, 51

  “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (Keats), 242

  O’Dwyer, Michael, 93

  Odyssey (Homer), 164

  Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 100

  O’Hara, Damian, 178–79

  Ohio, election (2004) in, 45–52

  Oklahoma City bombing, 112, 226

  Old Curiosity Shop, The (Dickens), 294, 295

  Old Mortality (Scott), 59

  Oliver, James, 19–20

  Oliver Twist (Dickens), 294–95, 296

  Olivetti, 3

  Olympic Games, 252–53

  “On the Death of the Poet” (Lermontov), 61

  “Operation Carlota” (García Márquez), 6

  Oppenheimer, Robert, 68

  Opus Dei, 305

  Orwell, George, 3, 19–28, 148

  Animal Farm, 23, 24, 28

  As I Please column by, 311

  Burmese Days, 205, 314

  Coming Up for Air, 312

  George Orwell Diaries, introduction, 311–20

  Nineteen Eighty-Four, 19, 20, 22, 313–14, 316

  The Road to Wigan Pier, 94, 313

  and Spanish Civil War, 314, 315–16

  “Why I Write,” 311

  Oswald, Lee Harvey, 71

  Ottoman Empire, 238, 261

  Our Mutual Friend (Dickens), 296–97

  Padilha, Janea, 181, 182

  Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza, Shah of Iran, 131–33, 265

  Paine, Thomas, 42, 78

  País, Frank, 10

  Pakistan, 63–67, 69, 205, 206, 208

  Palestine, 156, 255, 266

  Palin, Sarah, 233

  Pamuk, Orhan, 263

  My Name Is Red, 30

  Snow, 29–37

  Pandermalis, Dimitrios, 241

  Papandreou, Nick, 236

  Parthenon, 235–42

  Partisan Review, 20, 148

  Passage to India, A (Forster), 204, 205, 206, 207

  Patriot Act, 112

  patriotism, 53–55, 321

  Paxman, Jeremy, 136

  Pepper, Claude, 28

  Peres, Shimon, 263

  Pericles (Plutarch), 236–37

  Peron, Juan, 5, 6

  Perot, H. Ross, 41, 271

  Pesce, Hugo, Latitudes del Silencio, 7

  Peter Rabbit (Potter), 150

  Pevsner, Nikolaus, 94

  Phidias, 238, 240

  Pickwick Papers, The, (Dickens), 294–95

  Pierce, Franklin, 76

  Pillars of Hercules (Soho pub), 177

  Pinckney, Darryl, 188

  Plan of Attack (Woodward), 253, 255

  Pledge of Allegiance, 42, 75, 80

  PLO, 265

  Plot Against America, The, (Roth), 116

  Plutarch, Pericles, 236–37

  polymath, 147–48

  Popper, Karl, 27, 94

  Potter, Beatrix:

  Peter Rabbit, 150

  The Tale of Mr. Tod, 150

  The Tale of Pigling Bland, 150

  Pound, Ezra, 21

  Powell, Anthony, 61, 62, 149, 217

  Powell, Colin, 112, 251–59

  My American Journey, 257–58

  POW/MIA, 74

  President We Deserve, The (Walker), 54

  Priestley, J. B., 26

  Privilege to Die, A (Cambanis), 267

  Promise of American Life, The (Croly), 168

  Protestant Reformation, 305, 308–9

  Proust, Marcel, 148

  Pushkin, Alexander, 58–59, 60–61, 62

  Eugene Onegin, 61

  Putin, Vladimir, 250

  Puzzle Palace, The (Bamford), 111

  Qaddafi, Muammar, 133

  Quakers, 111

  Quixote, Don (fict.), 7

  Radio Free Europe, 145

  Raft, George, 2

  Rage and the Pride, The (Fallaci), 139

  Raj Quartet, The (Scott), 63, 203–9

  Rákosi, Mátyás, 143

  Ram Leela (Indian epic), 65

  Randolph, A. Philip, 199

  Ransom, Harry, 81

  Ransom, John Crowe, 45

  Rashid, Ahmed, 222

  Rasmussen, Anders Fogh, 263

  Rather, Dan, 131, 132

  Rauf, Imam, 284

  Raven, Simon, 102

  Reading Lolita in Tehran (Nafisi), 247

  Reagan, Ronald, 118–19, 121, 199, 231

  Rebel, The (Camus), 149

  Red Brigades, 148

  Rees, Richard, 20, 24, 25

  reflexology, 172

  Reformation, 305, 308–9

  regime change, 255–56

  rehabilitation, 169–75
, 177–83, 185–91

  Brazilian keratin hair treatment, 188–89

  Brazilian waxing technique, 181–83

  dentistry, 180–81, 186

  exercise, 174, 190–91

  manicure, 187

  memory loss, 187–88

  professional report and opinion, 169–71

  scorecard, 191

  smoking cessation, 178–80, 186–88, 191

  spa, 172–75

  unforeseen consequences of, 187

  Rehnquist, William, 45

  Reid, Harry, 120

  Reid, Jerry, 76

  Republican Jewish Coalition, 123–24

  Republic of Letters, 165, 167

  Reuther, Walter, 116

  Revolution

  American, 55

  and Counter-Revolution, 7

  Decembrist, 58, 62

  expectations of, 8

  non-Soviet model sought in, 12

  readiness to die in, 10

  Rice, Susan, 249

  Rich, Marc, 125

  Riddle of the Sands, The (Childers), 155

  Rilke, Rainer Maria, 151

  Road to Wigan Pier, The (Orwell), 94, 313

  Robertson, Geoffrey, 107

  Robeson, Paul, 27

  Robinson, Henry Morton, 165

  Roche, Dennis, 188, 189

  Rockwell, Norman, 85

  Rodriguez, Felix, 16–17

  Rogers, Will, 201

  Rognoni, Virginio, 148

  Rolland, Romain, 275

  Romero, Anthony, 106, 110

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 116

  Roosevelt, Franklin, 150

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 7, 43

  Rose, Charlie, 137

  Rosenberg, Alfred, 274

  Roth, Philip

  I Married a Communist, 116

  The Plot Against America, 116

  Rousset, David, L’Univers concentrationnaire, 273

  Rubin, Barnett, 110

  Rumsfeld, Donald, 127, 128

  Rushdie, Salman, 110, 321

  Midnight’s Children, 64

  Shalimar the Clown, 63–69

  Shame, 64

  Rusk, Dean, 256

  Ruskin, John, 296

  Russell, Bertrand, 274

  Russert, Tim, 137, 256

  Rustin, Bayard, 116

  Ryan, Jack, 230

  Sadat, Anwar el-, 37, 201

  Saeed the Pessoptimist (Habibi), 29, 117

  Safire, William, 125

  St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, 95, 318–19

  Saklatvala, Shapurji, 92

  Salinas Museum, Palermo, 241

  Salinger, J. D., 177

  Sandinistas, 3, 118

  San Martín, José de, 6n

  San Salvador, 2

  Santiago, Cuba, massacre in, 1

  Sartre, Jean-Paul, 148, 174

  Saunders, Frances Stonor, Who Paid the Piper?, 26

  Sayers, Dorothy L., 166

  Scarborough Country (MSNBC), 87–88

  Schiller, Friedrich von, 275

  Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 116, 117

  The Age of Jackson, 202

  The Disuniting of America, 202

  Journals: 1952–2000, 197–202

  A Thousand Days, 198

  Schlesinger, Stephen, and Stephen Kinzer, Bitter Fruit, 8

  Scholl, Sophie, 150

  Schröder, Gerhard, 96

  Scott, Paul, 65

  The Day of the Scorpion, 204

  A Division of the Spoils, 205

  The Raj Quartet, 63, 203–9

  Scott, Sir Walter, Old Mortality, 59

  Scowcroft, Brent, 105

  Sebestyen, Victor, Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, 141–46

  Second Amendment, 112

  “Secret People, The” (Chesterton), 300–301, 303

  Sellers, Peter, 99

  September 11 attacks, 30, 247

  and Afghanistan-Iraq wars, 119–20, 255

  and Fallaci, 139

  and intelligence agencies, 109

  and legislation, 108

  as life-changing event, 55, 105, 119, 226

  and W. (film), 225–26

  Serge, Victor, 273

  Shahak, Israel, and Norton Mezvinsky, Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, 161

  Shakespeare, William, As You Like It, 275–76

  Shalimar the Clown (Rushdie), 63–69

  Shame (Rushdie), 64

  Shrum, Bob, 243

  Silva, Hector, 2–3

  Simpson, Wallis, 92

  Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 81

  Sir Vidia’s Shadow (Theroux), 221

  Sitwell, Osbert, 23

  60 minutes (TV), 136

  Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, A (Campbell and Robinson), 165

  Slate

  “Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Price of Freedom” (October 8, 2007), 193–96

  “Bah, Humbug” (December 20, 2005), 87–89

  “The Case against Hillary Clinton” (January 14, 2008), 211–14

  “Edward M. Kennedy: Redemption Song” (August 31, 2009), 243–46

  “Engaging with Iran Is Like Having Sex With Someone Who Hates You” (September 14, 2009), 247–50

  “Hezbollah’s Progress” (October 18, 2010), 265–68

  “How Uninviting” (October 23, 2006), 123–26

  “Look Who’s Cutting and Running Now” (November 20, 2006), 127–29

  “No Regrets” (January 19, 2009), 225–27

  “Physician, Heal Thyself” (July 9, 2007), 159–62

  “The Politicians We Deserve” (October 11, 2010), 269–71

  “Shut Up about Armenians or We’ll Hurt Them Again” (April 5, 2010), 261–64

  “The Tall Tale of Tuzla” (March 31, 2008), 215–16

  Slater, Humphrey, 315

  Slaughterhouse Province, The (Davis), 261

  Smallholder, 317

  Smith, Winston, 317n

  smoking cessation, 178–80, 186–88, 191

  Smolka, Peter, 23

  Smollett, Peter, 25

  Snow (Pamuk), 29–37

  Socialist Leader, 23

  Socrates, 237

  Solti, Sir George, 94

  Somoza, Anastasio, 8, 9

  Sontag, Susan, 119, 147

  Sophocles, 237

  South, the, 71–82

  “Bible Belt,” 79

  redefining itself, 82

  rednecks in, 73

  Texas, 80–82

  Soviet Union

  and Cold War, 120

  “Doctors’ Plot” in, 159

  Guevara’s criticism of, 12–13

  Hitler’s alliance with, 21, 115, 116

  and Hungarian Revolt, 141, 142–46

  Spain, Communist Party in, 21, 22

  Spanish Armada, 306

  Spanish Civil War, 115, 314, 315–16

  Spanish Republic, 10

  Spender, Stephen, 26

  Sperber, Manès, 148

  Spielberg, Steven, Munich, 99

  Spinoza, Baruch, 193

  Spurling, Hilary, 205

  Stalin, Joseph

  death of, 142, 149

  and “Doctors’ Plot,” 159

  and Guevara, 9

  and Hitler, 115, 116

  and Orwell, 27, 28

  Stalinism, 19, 22, 95, 161–62

  Stamboul Train (Greene), 160

  “Star-Spangled Banner, The” (anthem), 74

  State Department, U.S., 251–57

  State of Excitement (Fleming, unpubl.), 97

  Steinbeck, John

  The Grapes of Wrath, 232

  In Dubious Battle, 232

  Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma, 201

  Stevens, Cat (aka Yusuf Islam), 110

  Stevenson, Adlai E., 43, 72, 199, 256

  Stone, I. F., 14, 27, 117

  Stone, Oliver, 225–26

  Stones of Athens, The (Wycherley), 237

  Stoppard, Tom, 81

  Strange Death of Liberal England, The (Dangerfield), 93

  Straw,
Jack, 107

  Submission (film), 194

  Suez Canal, 100, 142, 143–45, 146, 202

  Suphi, Mustafa, 34

  Sykes, Sir Mark, 157

  Sykes-Picot Agreement, 156

  Syria, 266, 267

  Tale of Mr. Tod, The (Potter), 150

  Tale of Pigling Bland, The (Potter), 150

  Taliban, 105, 222, 248

  Tammany Hall, 51–52

  Tea Party, 270–71

  Temple of Aphaea, 235

  Temple of Poseidon, 236

  Tenet, George, 109, 110, 256

  Tennant, Stephen, 217

  Texas, 80–82

  Thanksgiving, 83–85, 87

  Thatcher, Margaret, 96, 119, 253

  Theroux, Paul, Sir Vidia’s Shadow, 221

  Thompson, Edward, 158

  Thousand Days, A (Schlesinger), 198

  Thule Society, 276–77

  Timerman, Jacobo, 166

  Titanic, 96

  Tomalin, Claire, The Invisible Woman, 291

  totalitarian, use of term, 273

  To the Finland Station (Wilson), 165

  Transition magazine, 164

  Trotha, Lothar von, 276

  Trotsky, Leon, 10, 15

  Trujillo, Rafael, 8

  Truman administration, 27, 117

  “truth commissions,” 4

  Tschumi, Bernard, 240

  Turgenev, Ivan, 62

  Turkey

  and Armenia, 261–64

  as bridge between East and West, 30, 31

  and Byzantine Empire, 238

  Gallipoli, 36, 153

  and Mesopotamia, 155

  national identity of, 35, 37

  Ottoman Empire, 238, 261

  Turlington, Christy, 180, 181, 182

  Tutwiler, Margaret, 257

  Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (Sebestyen), 141–46

  Tyler, John, 76

  Ulysses (Joyce), 164

  United Fruit Company, 9

  United Nations (UN)

  and Guevara, 13

  and Hungary, 141, 146

  and Hussein, 123, 227, 256, 266

  and Iran, 248, 249

  and Iraq, 258–59

  “oil for food” program of, 123

  and Powell, 249, 258–59

  United States

  Bill of Rights, 105, 113

  Constitution, 105, 106, 108

  South, 71–82

  as superpower, 141

  Van Buren, Martin, 76

  Vance, Cyrus, 253

  van Gogh, Theo, 194

  Vanity Fair, 112, 218

  “Charles Dickens’s Inner Child” (February 2012), 291–97

  “The Importance of Being Orwell” (August 2012), 311–20

  “Joan Didion: Blue Nights” (June 2011), 281–82

  “The Lovely Stones” (July 2009), 235–42

  “My Red-State Odyssey” (September 2005), 71–82

  “Ohio’s Odd Numbers” (March 2005), 45–52

  “On the Limits of Self-improvement, Part I: Of Vice and Men” (October 2007), 169–75

  “On the Limits of Self-improvement, Part II: Vice and Versa” (December 2007), 177–83

  “On the Limits of Self-improvement, Part III: Mission Accomplished” (September 2008), 185–91

  “Oriana Fallaci and the Art of the Interview” (December 2006), 131–40

 

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