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Obit For a Former Contrarian

By AAN Staff
july 10, 2003  12:01 pm
Obit For a Former Contrarian
Twelve years ago, Christopher Hitchens was Dennis Perrin's friend and mentor, offering advice on his writing and holding court at the large dining room table in his D.C. apartment. But somewhere along the way the "kind and generous" author and "former socialist" went wrong, says Perrin: "I can barely read him anymore. His (recent pieces) are a mishmash of imperial justifications and plain bombast; the old elegant style is dead." What caused Hitch's transformation? Perrin says it was Bill Clinton, 9/11 and life inside the Beltway.
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