Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era

Alexander Cockburn

4.1/5 ( ratings)

“The implied narrative of this collection is the journalist’s background, the imperial myths that helped to shape him, the impulse to exile and his encounter with the Reagan era. The background, the myths and the impulse to exile form the first three sections of this book, whose overall architecture will, I hope, give some sense of the terms in which I have viewed my trade.”—Alexander Cockburn, from the introduction

Language: English

Pages: 540

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Haymarket/Verso

Release: October 17, 1988

ISBN: 0860919404

ISBN 13: 9780860919407

Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era

Alexander Cockburn

4.1/5 ( ratings)

“The implied narrative of this collection is the journalist’s background, the imperial myths that helped to shape him, the impulse to exile and his encounter with the Reagan era. The background, the myths and the impulse to exile form the first three sections of this book, whose overall architecture will, I hope, give some sense of the terms in which I have viewed my trade.”—Alexander Cockburn, from the introduction

Language: English

Pages: 540

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Haymarket/Verso

Release: October 17, 1988

ISBN: 0860919404

ISBN 13: 9780860919407

More books from Alexander Cockburn

Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Dead Meat

4.3/5 ( ratings)

A Colossal Wreck: A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Corruption and American Culture

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Politics Of Anti-Semitism

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Golden Age is in Us: Journeys and Encounters

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia

Five Days That Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Washington Babylon

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Serpents in the Garden: Liaisons with Culture & Sex

3.9/5 ( ratings)

I, Claud: Memoirs of a Subversive

4.8/5 ( ratings)

Student Power: Problems, Diagnosis, Action

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Chronicles of Dissent: Interviews with David Barsamian

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Beating the Devil: The Incendiary Rants of Alexander Cockburn

3.4/5 ( ratings)

A Short History of Fear

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Idle Passion: Chess and the Dance of Death

3.4/5 ( ratings)

End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate

3.4/5 ( ratings)

This Can't Be Happening!: Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Dime's Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils

3.4/5 ( ratings)

The Press

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Counterpunch: The Journalism That Rediscovers America

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?