![]() In fear of becoming "a mere weed and weakling and kick-bag," Hitchens confronted his chief tormenter and stood up for himself, telling the boy, "You are a liar, a bully, a coward, and a thief." Hitchens's rhetoric at that age was sufficiently forceful to cause the bully to retreat. ![]() ![]() Despite his family’s modest income, his mother insisted on cobbling together the money needed to send her son to boarding school: "If there is going to be an upper class in this country, then Christopher is going to be in it." It was in boarding school that Hitchens discovered a valuable life lesson: "words could function as weapons." A relatively small boy, classmates regularly bullied the adolescent Hitchens. ![]() Born in Portsmouth, England in 1949, Hitchens belonged to a family of Royal Navy veterans. The book received critical acclaim and earned a nomination for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In his memoir, Hitch-22 (2010), English-American author and journalist Christopher Hitchens chronicles both the personal and political arcs of his life as he grows into his stature as a public intellectual and avowed atheist, while negotiating his positions in respect to the American left. ![]()
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