Unacknowledged legislation

A celebration of Percy Shelley´s assertion that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world", these thirty-eight essays on writers from Oscasr Wilde to Salman Rushdie dispel the mith of politics as a stone tied to the neck of literature; Norman Podhoretz´s "bloody crosswords". Instead Hitchens argues that when all parties in the state were agreed on a matter, it was the individual pens that created the space for a true moral argument.