In the first part of this book, Christopher Hitchens confronts the legacy of Kipling, Trotsky and Churchill, and celebrates the work of Joyce, Proust and Borges. In then turns to Hitchen's journeys around America and his moving assessment of the United States after 9/11. The book concludes with a series of devastating attacks on Michael Moore, the cult of the Kennedys, David Irving and reportage and analysis from Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Pakistan and Iraq