Reporter A Memoir Paperback

Today, he is one of America's premier investigative journalists, whose fearless reporting has earned him fame, frontpage bylines in virtually every newspaper in the world, a staggering collection of awards, and no small amount of controversy. It is a story of slog, ingenuity and defiance, following Hersh from his first job as a crime reporter for the Chicago City News Bureau, through his Pulitzer Prizewinning freelance investigative exposes, to the heights of his reporting for The New York Times and the New Yorker.

It is a tale of nighttime encounters with great Civil Rights leaders, unauthorised meetings with Pentagon officials, raucous dinners with Canadian soldiers in Hanoi, tense phone calls with Secretaries of State, desperate to save face; of exposing myriad military and political wrongdoing, from My Lai to Watergate to Abu Ghraib, and the cynical coverups that followed in Washington and New York. Here too are unforgettable encounters with some of the most formidable figures from recent decades, from Saul Bellow to Martin Luther King Jr.

Ultimately, in unfurling Seymour Hersh's life and career, Reporter tells a story of twentiethcentury America, in all its excitement and darkness. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity.