This is a diary, a dossier of a radical's working life and circumstances among some of the most momentous years of the century. Its pages echo with the crash of rubble, of the old regimes of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, of the illusions of the post-Cold War West, of physical landscapes in upheaval.

“Mr. Cockburn is a warrior/freethinker, armed with courage and gifted prose to cut down on the hypocrisies of tyrants . [His] relentless candor is refreshing and admirable from any point in the political spectrum.” — Douglas Brinkley, New York Times Book Review

“It's spontaneous, as though he exhaled prose. Perhaps it's simply that Cockburn is, after all, Irish. Anyway, it's a literary gem.” — George Scialabba, Village Voice

“A treasure chest.” — Alan Massie, Daily Telegraph

“Delicate intimacy ... lightness of touch ... fluidity of prose .
profound, earthy and articulate.” — Economist

“A patch-work Paradise Lost.” — Times Literary Supplement

 Alexander Cockburn is co-editor of Counterpunch and a columnist for The Nation, New York Press and a range of other newspapers. He is the author of Corruptions of Empire, Fate of the Forest (with Susanna Hecht), and, with Jeffrey St. Clair, Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press, all from Verso.

 

 

 Publication
March 1996

448 pages

Paper
ISBN-13: 978 0 86091 664 2
£12 / US$18 / CAN$22




Also available:

Five Days That Shook the World: The Battle for Seattle and Beyond

Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & The Reagan Era

Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press