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Title: Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era by Alexander Cockburn, James Ridgeway ISBN: 0-86091-176-4 Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc Pub. Date: 01 December, 1987 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Reckless Disregard
Comment: If ever there were a journalist who cannot be trusted (Matt Drudge aside perhaps), it is Cockburn.
Cockburn's criticism of Reagan are by and large on the mark. But Reagan has been analyzed and critiqued by far more able critics with far greater credibility. Cockburn, a supposed "radical" and a former paid shill for the PLO (who never bothered to disclose this relationship while he was supposedly an objective reporter), was a long time contributor to the Village Voice. His pieces in The Village Voice over the years were, as often as not, a vile stew composed of ersatz radical politics, bitchy attacks on fellow journalists, and the occasional actual story accompanied by relentless self-promotion. He was also not above character assassination and very selective reading of facts in order to further his agenda du jour. Although he goes after Reagan here, liberals are often Cockburn targets -- he delights in attacking them for not being pure enough for him, even as he often gives right wingers and reactionaries a free pass. (If his recent article taken from his forthcoming book about Al Gore is any example of the book, Cockburn's newest offering is another example of this.
Simply put, there are better Marxists, better writers, better cultural critics and far more able journalists. Take a pass on this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great stuff
Comment: Cockburn is the master of the polemic. His words about Reagan, food, travel, *anything*, are worth reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: No other book so devastatingly captures the 80s
Comment: I read this wonderful collection of super sharp essays by the 'last marxist' himself back in the late 80s. Still have the Verso paperback edition on my book shelf and have given it as gifts for one occasion or another over the years.
Whether he is writing on Reagan, Thatcher or James Bond and travel his essays can not be beat for totally and unapologetically taking class analysis in a wildly creative and laugh out loud direction. Unpedictable, untrivial and totally original.
Get it and remember why Reagan and his machine were so dispicable.
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Title: The Politics of Anti-Semitism by Alexander Cockburn, Jeffrey St. Clair ISBN: 1902593774 Publisher: AK Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Golden Age Is in Us: Journeys & Encounters 1987-1994 by Alexander Cockburn ISBN: 0860916642 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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