Currently, of course, he's best known as a militant atheist and the author of "God Is Not Great." Hitchens also claims to have been spanked by Margaret Thatcher with a parliamentary order-paper, and to have had sex with two young men who would become members of her government - and surely no sane person would lie about such things. ("I managed a four-letter word or so before being grabbed very hard from behind.") Bush, though a supporter of the latter's interventionist foreign policy against "Islamofascism." That's a subject he knows a certain something about, having been beaten up last year in Beirut by members of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party for defacing one of their swastika posters. Hitchens describes how, at various times in his life, he's been a Trotskyist, a devil's advocate against Mother Teresa, a campaigner to have Henry Kissinger tried as a war criminal, an equal-opportunity loather of Bill Clinton and George W.
Much in "Hitch-22," Hitchens' new memoir, will have you wondering whether his mother's hopes were dashed or exceeded. She may have said "ruling class" or "establishment," but whichever it was, he says he was definitely on his mother's side at the time. His father said it was beyond the family's means, and his mother countered with the devastating line, "If there is going to be an upper class in this country, then Christopher is going to be in it." In fact Hitchens, a thoroughly honest writer, admits he isn't exactly sure what wording she used. When Christopher Hitchens was a small boy in Portsmouth, England, he overheard his parents arguing about the cost of sending him to an expensive private school. By Christopher Hitchens (Twelve 435 pages $26.99)
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