EAN: 9780141989099

REPORTER - SEYMOUR M HERSH KARTONIERT (TB)

'Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life  and what shines out of the book  amid the low
cunning and tireless legwork  is Hersh's warmth and humanity. Essential reading for every
journalist and aspiring journalist the world over' John le CarréIn the early 1950s  teenage
Seymour Hersh was finishing high school and university - while running the family's struggling
dry cleaning store in a Southside Chicago ghetto. Today  he is one of America's premier
investigative journalists  whose fearless reporting has earned him fame  front-page bylines in
virtually every newspaper in the world  a staggering collection of awards  and no small amount
of controversy.Reporter is the story of how he did it. It is a story of slog  ingenuity and
defiance  following Hersh from his first job as a crime reporter for the Chicago City News
Bureau  through his Pulitzer Prize-winning freelance investigative exposes  to the heights of
his reporting for The New York Times and the New Yorker. It is a tale of night-time encounters
with great Civil Rights leaders  unauthorised meetings with Pentagon officials  raucous dinners
with Canadian soldiers in Hanoi  tense phone calls with Secretaries of State  desperate to save
face  of exposing myriad military and political wrongdoing  from My Lai to Watergate to Abu
Ghraib  and the cynical cover-ups that followed in Washington and New York. Here too are
unforgettable encounters with some of the most formidable figures from recent decades  from
Saul Bellow to Martin Luther King Jr.  from Henry Kissinger to Bashar al-Assad.Ultimately  in
unfurling Seymour Hersh's life and career  Reporter tells a story of twentieth-century America
in all its excitement and darkness.

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