When Christopher Hitchens died ten years ago, he was remembered in many different ways. Viewers who came of age in the era of YouTube knew "Hitch" as militant atheist who toured the country debating pastors, priests and rabbis. Readers who'd followed his work in the 90s remembered Hitchens as the gifted prose stylist (and committed socialist) who wrote books attacking Henry Kissinger, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Mother Teresa. Hitchens's former comrades often remembered him as a traitor to the Left who responded to 9/11 by becoming a supporter of America's wars in the Middle East. Ben Burgis explores this complicated legacy, defending Hitchens on the subjects where Hitch deserves a defense, breaking down his many debates with opponents ranging from libertarians to religious believers, and grappling with the question of how this brilliant polemicist could have gone so disastrously wrong in his final decade. Book jacket.