{"product_id":"why-orwell-matters-0465030491","title":"Why Orwell Matters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0465030491\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hitchens, Christopher\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHitchens on Orwell:This is not a biography, but I sometimes feel as if George Orwell requires extricating from a pile of saccharine tablets and moist hankies; an object of sickly veneration and sentimental overpraise, employed to stultify schoolchildren with his insufferable rightness and purity. This kind of tribute is often of the Rochefoucauldian type; suggestive of the payoff made by vice to virtue, and also of the tricks played by an uneasy conscience.What [Orwell] illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that \"views\" do not really count; that it matters not what you think, but how you think, and that politics are relatively unimportant, while principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.Others on Hitchens:\"I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delphino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.\"-Gore Vidal\"Christopher Hitchens's writing has sweep and flair. He is accurate where others are merely dutiful, unpredictable where the tendency is to go for the cliché. In short, brilliant.\"-Edward W. Said\"May his targets cower.\" -Susan Sontag\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51876265918752,"sku":"NEW0465030491","price":43.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/91q53wIaFRL.jpg?v=1781759005","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/why-orwell-matters-0465030491","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}