![]() ![]() Apparently, this decision had been helped along by Hitchens' pro-war writings, and so our memoirist felt a pang upon learning that Daily had been killed by insurgents. "I was having an oppressively normal morning at the dawn of 2007," the famed polemicist remembers, "flicking through the banality of quotidian email traffic, when I idly clicked on a message from a friend." The note led Hitchens to information about Mark Jennings Daily, an honors graduate from UCLA who went to Iraq as a soldier, despite his misgivings about the wisdom of the U.S. ![]() There is an elegant, even beautiful, digression late in Christopher Hitchens' memoir, which, in its several hundred pages, takes us to childhood days in Malta, political radicalization in Oxford, movement solidarity and the beginning of political doubts in Cuba, and to Manhattan, Argentina, Oregon, Beirut, Washington, DC, and many other places besides. ![]()
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