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The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice Paperback – April 17, 1997

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An extended, nun-busting polemic from the The Nation columnist.
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Like all good pamphlets, The Missionary Position . . . 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 . . . is rather convincing. His main beef is that Teresa . . . has consorted with despots and white-collar criminals and gained millions of tax-free dollars, while the residents of her famous Calcutta clinic are still forced to confront their mortality with inadequate care. Ultimately, he argues, Mother Teresa is less interested in helping the poor than in using them as an indefatigable source of wretchedness on which to fuel the expansion of her fundamentalist Roman Catholic beliefs. Hitchens argues his case with consummate style. -- The New York Times Book Review, Bruno Maddox

Veteran lefty kicks old nun; old nun forgives; lefty doesn't want to be forgiven. --
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Verso (April 17, 1997)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 98 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 185984054X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1859840542
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.53 x 0.04 x 0.84 inches
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Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was the author of Letters to a Young Contrarian, and the bestseller No One Left to Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family. A regular contributor to Vanity Fair, The Atlantic Monthly and Slate, Hitchens also wrote for The Weekly Standard, The National Review, and The Independent, and appeared on The Daily Show, Charlie Rose, The Chris Matthew's Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, and C-Span's Washington Journal. He was named one of the world's "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect.

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