Alexander Cockburn was the co-editor of CounterPunch and the author of a number of titles, including Corruptions of Empire, The Golden Age Is in Us, Washington Babylon and Imperial Crusades. Brought up in Ireland, he moved to America in 1972 writing for the Village Voice, the Nation and many other journals. He died in July 2012.
Like Adorno, Cockburn's province is the consciousness of industry,
and if, unlike Adorno, he isn't mournful, then so much the better
... He is one of the few journalists in America, given that most of
them tend to report either each word or what is acceptable to
policy-makers.
*London Review of Books*
Probably the most gifted polemicist writing in English today.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Never less than ferociously entertaining.
*Publishers Weekly*
Outspoken, intellectual, uncompromising, combative, witty and
incapable of hiding his contempt for the powers that be.
*Utne Reader*
Snobbish, funny, brutal and nostalgic.
*Los Angeles Times*
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