Who is Mother Teresa from The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice and what is their importance?

Mother Teresa, the subject of this book, is eventually identified in it as Agnes Bojaxhiu, born in 1910 in Skopje, Albania, to a staunchly Catholic family. The author discovers that young Agnes had a happy childhood and did not wish to become a nun until the age of eighteen, when she entered a convent. Typically of Mother Teresa, this early information, and most information about her later life, is very sketchy. Christopher Hitchens writes that she is close-mouthed about herself, giving only the barest details even to her most trusted admirers in the media.