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Blistering and timely interrogation of the politics and motives of an infamous ex-leftist.Irascible and forthright, Christopher Hitchens stood out as a man determined to do just that. In his younger years, a career-minded socialist, he emerged from the smoke of 9/11 a neoconservative “Marxist,”