剋裏斯托弗•希欽斯（Christopher Hitchens，1949—2011），美籍英裔作傢。被譽為“這個時代最偉大的演說傢”，生前連續三度入選美國《外交政策》雜誌與英國《展望》雜誌聯閤評選的“全球百大思想傢”。曾長期擔任《名利場》雜誌、《紀事》雜誌、《新政治傢》雜誌、《紐約時報書評》和《大西洋月刊》等媒體的特約編輯、撰稿人。代錶作有《審判基辛格》《緻一位“憤青”的信》《有待商榷》《人之將死》等。

In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father—a man conflicted by power who wrote the Declaration of Independence and acted as ambassador to France yet yearned for a quieter career in the Virginia legislature. A masterly writer, Jefferson was an awkward public speaker. A professed proponent of emancipation, he elided the issue of slavery from the Declaration of Independence and continued to own human property. A reluctant candidate, he left an indelible presidential legacy. With intelligence, insight, eloquence, and wit, Hitchens gives us an artful portrait of a complex, formative figure and his turbulent era.