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"I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, and inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens." Gore Vidal "Unacknowledged Legislation is a big, handsome book containing some of the best, most polished and wittiest writing you are likely to encounter this or any other year... Gore Vidal should be so lucky to have this boy for an heir." John Banville in the Irish Times "Lionel Trilling once observed in his diaries that, to his genuine surprise, he was no longer simply a critic of literature but had become a fact of literature himself... Christopher Hitchens, political and literary journalist extraordinaire, should now be considered a fact of political and cultural reality. His astounding capacity for work has produced a body of work; his vastly ranging, deeply driven devastations and illuminations make up a reliable outlook on the world." Lee Siegel in the Los Angeles Times "Hitchen's writing is tough, heartfelt, coruscating, funny - and imbued with the understanding that the task at hand is an important one." The Times "A Tom Paine for our troubled times... he picks up the sword and mantle of E. P. Thompson, and carries them off with swashbuckling impertinence, valiant for truth, last in the line of English gentlemen-intellectuals." Independent "He is a loose cannon, a sharp wit, an ironist, a polemicist of exceptional talent, an editor's dream." Times Literary Supplement
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A celebration of Percy Shelley's assertion that' poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world', these thirty-eight essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie dispel the myth of politoics as a stone tied to the neck of literature; Norman Podhoretz's 'blood crosswords'. Instead Hitchens argues that when all parties in the state were agreed on a matter, it was the individual pens that created the space for a true moral argument.
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