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Praise

“Quite simply, the best Western journalist at work in Iraq today”
—Seymour Hersh

“A fine and courageous journalist”
—Max Hastings, Sunday Times

“one of the best informed on-the-ground journalists”
—Sidney Blumenthal

“Cockburn’s colorful, elegantly written account extols Claud’s charisma, courage, and daring….[Cockburn] succeeds in capturing Claud’s verve and staunch political principles.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Claud Cockburn was one of the great journalists of the 20th century, an irreverent anti-careerist, steeped in the politics of Central Europe, happiest courting risk … Patrick [Cockburn] has now written an excellent account of him, supplying much new or buried information”
—Andrew Gimson, Conservative Home

“A timely intervention”
—Laura Flanders, Guardian

“Claud is shown as complicated and stubborn while also being a wholly magnetic figure who was dogged in both holding his beliefs and finding the central truth. A ruminative biography that firmly situates the power of independent, on-the-ground journalism.”
—Booklist

“A fascinating book about his father’s life, with some excellent insights relevant to journalism today. A great read for all but a compulsory text for any aspiring journalists out there.”
—Paul Donovan, Morning Star

“Cockburn’s life was a scurrilous, subversive but dedicated pursuit of the truth (well, mostly) in defiance of authority, while also having a great deal of fun … He is in many ways one of the great models of what a journalist should be – curious, nonconformist, sceptical and dogged.”
—Peter Hitchens, Daily Mail

“Described by Graham Greene as the greatest journalist of the 20th century and attacked by senator Joseph McCarthy as “one of the most dangerous ‘reds’ in the world” … the remarkable life of Claud Cockburn … is being told by his son, Patrick, in a book which hails him as the inventor of “guerrilla journalism”.”
—Duncan Campbell, Observer

“The story of Claud Cockburn and the Week, the deadly little newsletter he set up in 1933, shows that power is not always deaf to truth.”
—Neal Ascherson, London Review of Books