Author: Anderson Cooper
Translator: In-taek Chae
Publisher: Koreaone Books
292 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the
world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has
changed the way we watch the news. In this gripping, candid, and
remarkably powerful memoir, he offers an unstinting, up-close view of
the most harrowing crises of our time, and the profound impact they have
had on his life.
After growing up on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Cooper felt a magnetic
pull toward the unknown, an attraction to the far corners of the earth.
If he could keep moving, and keep exploring, he felt he could stay one
step ahead of his past, including the fame surrounding his mother,
Gloria Vanderbilt, and the tragic early deaths of his father and older
brother. As a reporter, the frenetic pace of filing dispatches from
war-torn countries, and the danger that came with it, helped him avoid
having to look too closely at the pain and loss that was right in front
of him.
But recently, during the course of one extraordinary, tumultuous year,
it became impossible for him to continue to separate his work from his
life, his family's troubled history from the suffering people he met all
over the world. From the tsunami in Sri Lanka to the war in Iraq to the
starvation in Niger and ultimately to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans
and Mississippi, Cooper gives us a firsthand glimpse of the devastation
that takes place, both physically and emotionally, when the normal order
of things is violently ruptured on such a massive scale. Cooper had been
in his share of life-threatening situations before -- ducking fire on
the streets of war-torn Sarejevo, traveling on his own to
famine-stricken Somalia, witnessing firsthand the genocide in Rwanda --
but he had never seen human misery quite like this. Writing with vivid
memories of his childhood and early career as a roving correspondent,
Cooper reveals for the first time how deeply affected he has been by the
wars, disasters, and tragedies he has witnessed, and why he continues to
be drawn to some of the most perilous places on earth.
Striking, heartfelt, and utterly engrossing, Dispatches from the Edge is
an unforgettable memoir that takes us behind the scenes of the
cataclysmic events of our age and allows us to see them through the eyes
of one of America's most trusted, fearless, and pioneering reporters.
About the Author
Anderson Cooper joined CNN in 2001 and has anchored his own program,
Anderson Cooper 360°, since 2003. He had previously served as a
correspondent for ABC News and was a foreign correspondent for Channel
One News. Cooper has won several awards for his work, including an Emmy.
He graduated from Yale University in 1989 and also studied Vietnamese at
the University of Hanoi. He writes regularly for Details magazine.
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