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Christopher Hitchens, the British bad boy of Washington, D. C., now takes on Mother Teresa of Calcutta. As he states in his foreword, "What would be so base as to pick on a wizened, shrivelled old lady, well stricken in years, who has consecrated her entire life to the needy and the destitute?" However, Hitchens points out her associations with Charles Keating, the chaotic financial management of her clinic, her insistence that "the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor" while she herself gets "some of the finest and costliest" medical care in Western hospitals.
| Size | | Length: | 98 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 6.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Like all good pamphlets, 'The Missionary Position', by Christopher Hitchens, is very short, zealously overwritten, and rails wildly in defense of an almost nonsensical proposition: that Mother Teresa of Calcutta is actually not a saint but an evil and selfish old woman. And Mr. Hitchens, a columnist at 'Vanity Fair' and 'The Nation', is rather convincing....Mr. Hitchens argues his case with consummate style. The only real problem with 'The Missionary Position' is its awful title."
New York Times Book Review - Bruno Maddox (01/14/1996)
"The charge of deliberately curtailing medical care, of promulgating 'a cult based on death and suffering and subjection,' is a serious and substantiated one, and it cannot be ignored....In the climate of tremendous political and popular support for Mother Teresa, especially in the West, it is obvious that Hitchens's investigations have been a solitary and courageous endeavor. The book is extremely well-written, with a sanity and sympathy that tempers its irony. In spite of this, Mother Teresa remains an enigma even after we have finished reading it....Hitchens quotes Freud towards the beginning of the book, and as a reader of Freud he would know that the genesis of, and reasons for, actions are never clearly revealed to the protagonists themselves, let alone to others."
London Review of Books - Amit Chaudhuri (01/04/1996)
"If there is a hell, Hitchens is going there for this book."
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