Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era - Hardcover

Cockburn, Alexander; Ridgeway, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0860911764 ISBN 13: 9780860911760

Publisher: Verso Books, 1987

Synopsis

Essays discuss the Reagan administration, the role of the press in his election, modern journalism, Ireland, new books, and politics

About this title

About the Author:

Alexander Cockburn co-edits CounterPunch with Jeffrey St. Clair. Together they have written Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press and A Dime’s Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils.

From Publishers Weekly:

Regular readers of Cockburn's stimulating and highly opinionated columns in the Nation and the Wall Street Journal, as well as his occasional articles in other publications, will hardly need any urging to snap up this first collection of his journalism. His work is pungent, witty and without pretense to that "objectivity" he so rightly sees as the bane of much written and all televised journalism. Cockburn is violently anti-Reagan, contemptuous of the press for having let him off so easily for most of his presidency and not optimistic about many of the Democrats now before the public. He is that rarityan old-fashioned socialist thoroughly in touch with his times. His political pieces are clearly arguable, though never less than ferociously entertaining. What may surprise those who know only that side of Cockburn, however, is the range of his interests as shown here: splendid pieces about the Ireland of his childhood, his much-loved father, the history and ideology of James Bond, the perils to good writing of the word processor, even the making of the movie Top Gun. For sheer quantity of thought-provoking entertainment the book is a bargain: and if the print is rather too small, at least it allowed the publishers to get more Cockburn between coversa worthy aim.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0860911764
• ISBN 13: 9780860911760
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480