
Because the 2014 edition of Christopher Hitchens’ Prepared for the worst by Atlantic Books doesn’t feature a table of content I made my own. See html-version below, or download the printable PDF version here.
Introduction 3
Good and Bad
- Thomas Pain: The actuarial radical 9
- The charmer 20
- Holy laud heretic 25
- Creon’s think tank:
The mind of Conor Cruise O’Brien 47 - Reading to Borges 66
- The chorus and cassandra 70
- Comrade Orwell 95
Blunt Instruments
- Camus: Un copain 115
- Brideshead revisited 119
- Decimation: The tenth man 126
- Poor dear Cyril 130
- I dare say 133
- The mouth of foot 136
- Born-again conformist 142
- The trouble with Henry 152
- False start 164
- Earache 170
- Something for everybody 173
- Same, only more so 177
- Better off without 180
- From here to democracy 185
- Umberto Eco 189
- Blunt instruments 194
- The blood never dries 198
- Style section 200
- Mugged by reality 204
Datelines
- Nicaragua libre 211
- The cathouse and the cross 224
- Hobbes in the levant 238
- Dead men on leave 242
- A morning with rabbi Kahane 245
- Going home with Kim Dae Jung 248
- Liberté à la polonaise 257
- Conversation with Djilas 261
- A sense of mission: The Raj quartet 264
In the Era of Good Feelings
- Lies, all lies 287
- The meese factor 290
- the fiddler’s elbow 295
- The old boy 298
- Against the contras 302
- Conflict of interest 304
- Doing good: the neoliberals 307
- The president 310
- Kennedy lies 314
- Perceptions and signals 317
- Finding it funny 321
- Reagon the democrat 324
- Destructive engagement 327
- Kennedy’s bedroom 331
- Useless idiots 335
- Bitter fruit 338
- Chicken hawks 341
- Standing tall 344
- Skin on the teeth 349
- Loony tunes 352
- Casting bread on the senators 356
- Watergate revisited:
The Greek connection 360 - Wanton acts of usage 373
- Hurricane Robertson 383
- With a little luck 386
- “A bodyguard of lies” 389
- Reagan’s december 392
- Reality time 396
- The era of good feelings 401
- Blabscam 404
- Faulty tower 408
- Miami vice 410
- Original sin 414
- A few questions 417
- Triumph of the will 420
- The killing bottle 423
- The tolling bell 426
- Dear Oscar 430
Prepared for the worst
- On not knowing the half of it:
Homage to telegraphist Jacobs 435