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A Colossal Wreck: A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Corruption, and American Culture
By Cockburn, Alexander
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Starred Review on September 1, 2013 | Social Sciences
By the time Anglo-Irish journalist Cockburn (coeditor, CounterPunch magazine) died in 2012, he was widely considered one of America's best radical journalists (a longtime U.S. resident, he became a citizen in 2009). Once described in a New York Times review as a "Marxist Mencken," Cockburn possessed both wicked humor and deadly aim, whether in his muckraking of the CIA or the press or in his political criticism of our presidents, politics, or foreign...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
