I had the good luck to encounter Mr. Murray at the Cambridge Union a while back. He was very clear, very precise and very personable. I've now found the Hitch's review of the man and his book. Well worth reading.
Excerpt:
I was simultaneously impressed and depressed by the assignment, because the work turned out to be (a) masterly and (b) written by someone who turned out to be only a few years older than my son. (Mr. Murray was born in 1979, which meant that he had finished the biography while he was still at college.
Keep going for the excerpt from Murray's own writings. I particularly like this:
In a free society nothing should be incapable of being said: the scandal in a society as free as America’s is that so much is not even being asked
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