Orwell got the rise to prominence of America and the American idea wrong—his writing about the US was slight or condescending due to English snobbery about American mass culture, and he lacked a historical sense of America's importance, though Hitchens notes Orwell admired Twain and Thomas Paine.
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Christopher HitchensEvidence Quote
“most of the way he writes about america is either rather slight or rather condescending has to be admitted you didn't have enough of a historic sense of its rise and importance”
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