Looking for trouble

Name: Looking for trouble
ISBN: 9780385483551

par R. J. March

3/5

(45 votes)

Format: 372 pages
Première édition: 1999
Editeurs: Alyson Books

This could have been a very important book. Cockburn's personal courage and her commitment to exposing the truth landed her in many political hotbeds worldwide.

The narrator is one of the strongest female characters I've read in a long time---intelligent, well-read, daring, tactful, witty, and with good taste in everything. Her adventures through the most dangerous political areas put a new spin on what you hear in the newspaper, from rather ridiculous dictator families to the horrible living conditions of villages in countries that have declared martial law.

Well-written, fast-paced account of a smart, savvy female journalist's rise to power in the male-dominated media area of combat coverage & "sensitive" foreign issues. It offers inside stories on a number of the world's political hot spots (and some of the US's nastiest foreign policy decisions).