Reporter: A Memoir
Autor Seymour M. Hershen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 noi 2019
In 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.
Reporteris 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 forTheNew York Timesand theNew 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,Reportertells a story of twentieth-century America, in all its excitement and darkness.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141989099
ISBN-10: 0141989092
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141989092
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Seymour
M.
Hershhas
been
a
staff
writer
forThe
New
YorkerandThe
New
York
Times.He
established
himself
at
the
forefront
of
investigative
journalism
in
1970
when
he
was
awarded
a
Pulitzer
Prize
for
his
exposé
of
the
massacre
in
My
Lai,
Vietnam.
Since
then
he
has
received
the
George
Polk
Award
five
times,
the
National
Magazine
Award
for
Public
Interest
twice,
the
Los
Angeles
Times
Book
Prize,
the
National
Book
Critics
Circle
Award,
the
George
Orwell
Award,
and
dozens
of
other
awards.
Recenzii
One
of
America's
greatest
investigative
reporters.
In a city and culture where screeching talk shows and preening columnists have largely supplanted old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting, and most 'investigative reporting' consists of the collection of carefully dispensed leaks, Hersh stands virtually alone.
The most feared investigative reporter in Washington.
If there is a smoking gun lying around the White House, the reporter most likely to find it is Seymour M. Hersh.
A whip-smart, preternaturally energetic outsider who . . . assembled a body of work that helps to radically revise the way Americans see their government.
A groundbreaking journalist who has revealed some of America's darkest secrets.
The last great American reporter.
Hersh's exposés of gross abuses by members of the US military in Vietnam and Iraq have earned him worldwide fame and high journalistic honors.
Quite simply, the greatest investigative journalist of his era.
Hersh is necessary reading for anyone remotely interested in what went wrong and continues to go wrong in Iraq
I've long admired the skill and independence with which Hersh has brought important and concealed information to light
One of the most skilled investigative journalists in American historyshares his saga in compelling detail ... Hersh takes readers behind the scenes as he exposes corrupt U.S. foreign policy, Defense Department bumbling in numerous wars, political coverups during Watergate, private sector corporate scandals, and torture tactics used by the U.S. government against alleged terrorists after 9/11. The author shares insightful (and sometimes searing) anecdotes about fellow journalists, presidents and their cronies, military generals, and numerous celebrities. Readers interested in a primer about investigative techniques will find Hersh a generous teacher.Candoris the driving force in this outstanding book.Rarely has a journalist's memoir come together so well, with admirable measures of self-deprecation, transparent pride, readable prose style, and honesty.
Powerful . . . There's gripping journalistic intrigue aplenty as [Hersh] susses out sources and documents, fences with officials, and fields death threats. . . . Hersh himself is brash and direct, but never cynical, and his memoir is as riveting as the great journalistic exposés he produced.
Candid and revelatory . . . Compared to the contemporary field of blogs, bots, and opinion-driven reportage, the last half of the twentieth-century can look like the heyday of honest and critical journalism. But even now, Hersh remains at the vanguard of tenacious and purposeful writers who speak truth to power, and surely he's inspiring the best at work now. Journalism junkies will devour this insider's account of a distinguished career.
Reporteris 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
In a city and culture where screeching talk shows and preening columnists have largely supplanted old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting, and most 'investigative reporting' consists of the collection of carefully dispensed leaks, Hersh stands virtually alone.
The most feared investigative reporter in Washington.
If there is a smoking gun lying around the White House, the reporter most likely to find it is Seymour M. Hersh.
A whip-smart, preternaturally energetic outsider who . . . assembled a body of work that helps to radically revise the way Americans see their government.
A groundbreaking journalist who has revealed some of America's darkest secrets.
The last great American reporter.
Hersh's exposés of gross abuses by members of the US military in Vietnam and Iraq have earned him worldwide fame and high journalistic honors.
Quite simply, the greatest investigative journalist of his era.
Hersh is necessary reading for anyone remotely interested in what went wrong and continues to go wrong in Iraq
I've long admired the skill and independence with which Hersh has brought important and concealed information to light
One of the most skilled investigative journalists in American historyshares his saga in compelling detail ... Hersh takes readers behind the scenes as he exposes corrupt U.S. foreign policy, Defense Department bumbling in numerous wars, political coverups during Watergate, private sector corporate scandals, and torture tactics used by the U.S. government against alleged terrorists after 9/11. The author shares insightful (and sometimes searing) anecdotes about fellow journalists, presidents and their cronies, military generals, and numerous celebrities. Readers interested in a primer about investigative techniques will find Hersh a generous teacher.Candoris the driving force in this outstanding book.Rarely has a journalist's memoir come together so well, with admirable measures of self-deprecation, transparent pride, readable prose style, and honesty.
Powerful . . . There's gripping journalistic intrigue aplenty as [Hersh] susses out sources and documents, fences with officials, and fields death threats. . . . Hersh himself is brash and direct, but never cynical, and his memoir is as riveting as the great journalistic exposés he produced.
Candid and revelatory . . . Compared to the contemporary field of blogs, bots, and opinion-driven reportage, the last half of the twentieth-century can look like the heyday of honest and critical journalism. But even now, Hersh remains at the vanguard of tenacious and purposeful writers who speak truth to power, and surely he's inspiring the best at work now. Journalism junkies will devour this insider's account of a distinguished career.
Reporteris 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