num_pages: 479
description: Alexander Cockburn, The Nation's Beat the Devil columnist since '84 &amp; popular radical journalist, was born in Scotland &amp; grew up in Ireland. He graduated in '63 with an Oxford degree in English literature &amp; language. After two years as a Times Literary Supplement editor, he worked at New Left Review &amp; New Statesman, coediting two Penguin volumes on trade unions &amp; student movements. A permanent resident of the USA since '73, he wrote for The Village Voice about the press &amp; politics. Since then he's contributed to publications including The NY Review of Books, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly &amp; Wall Street Journal ('80-90), as well as In These Times &amp; Anderson Valley Advertiser. He's coeditor, with Jeffrey St Clair, of the newsletter &amp; radical website CounterPunch which have a substantial world audience. In '87 he published a bestselling essay collection, Corruptions of Empire. Two years later he cowrote, with Susanna Hecht, The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers &amp; Defenders of the Amazon. In '95 Verso also published his diary of the late 80s/early 90s &amp; fall of Communism, The Golden Age Is in Us. With Ken Silverstein he wrote Washington Babylon. With St Clair he's written/coedited: Whiteout, The CIA, Drugs &amp; the Press; The Politics of Anti-Semitism; Imperial Crusades; Al Gore, A User's Manual; Five Days That Shook the World; &amp; A Dime's Worth of Difference.
language: English
title: Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era
titlecomplete: Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era
genres: Politics, American History, American, History, Journalism, Essays, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 55
series: The Haymarket Series
publisher: Verso Books (London/NY)