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Believe Nothing Until It Is Officially Denied: Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism

Believe Nothing Until It Is Officially Denied: Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism

Cockburn, Patrick

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Publisher Price: $39.95

ISBN10: 1804290742
ISBN13: 9781804290743
Publisher: Verso
Published: Oct 22 2024
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
The Extraordinary Life of a Revolutionary Journalist

Radical journalist Claud Cockburn fought successfully against the political and media establishment, writing for publications as varied as The Times and Private Eye. To Graham Greene, he was the greatest journalist of the twentieth century.

Born in China in 1904 and educated alongside Evelyn Waugh, Cockburn launched into a stellar career as a Times correspondent, first in Berlin, then New York, interviewing Al Capone in Chicago, and finally Washington. He resigned in 1932 to start The Week, an anti-Nazi and anti-establishment newsletter with an influence out of all proportion to its circulation. British officials were horrified by the scoops he published. These included stories on the political influence of German appeasers - the Cliveden Set - in the British elite and the previously suppressed news of Edward VIII's abdication.

Cockburn wrote dispatches while fighting in the Spanish Civil War. In Spain, he helped W. H. Auden and clashed with George Orwell. Claud's private life, too, was eventful. He was married three times, once to Jean Ross, the model for Christopher Isherwood's Sally Bowles.

Patrick Cockburn, himself an international journalist, chronicles his father Claud's lifelong dedication to a guerrilla campaign against the powerful on behalf of the powerless. It is a biography for today's age, in which journalism is frequently suppressed, overshadowed, undervalued, and corrupted

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