![]() 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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