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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. </p>
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. </p>
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. </p>
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. </p>
作者简介:
安德森·库珀，Anderson Cooper
美国CNN传奇新闻主播、记者、作家，多次出入战地报道新闻，曾经获颁众多新闻奖项与9座艾美奖，被授予“国家荣誉勋章骑士”称号。
他对世界充满探索热情与求知欲望，在报道中渗透进深厚的内心情感，举世瞩目的成功改变了世界观众看新闻的 方式。处女作《边缘信使》高居《纽约时报》畅销榜冠军。
原文摘录:
“Follow your bliss,” she said, quoting Joseph Campbell. I was hoping for something more specific-“Plastics,” for instance. I worried I couldn’t “follow my bliss” because I couldn’t feel my bliss; I couldn’t feel anything at all. I wanted to be someplace where emotions were palpable, where the pain outside matched the pain I was feeling inside. I needed balance, equilibrium, or as close to it as I could get. I also wanted to survive, and I thought I could learn from others who had. War seemed like my only option. (查看原文)
多丽耶特
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2012-09-22 21:20:18
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I worry I’ve forgotten what’s important about my brother, what’s not. I recall looks, images, arguments. There was the time Carter punched me when I was an infant. The time in high school when he screamed at me, “You’re not my fucking father!” and stormed out of my room. The day I scrawled, “I HATE HIM!” in a diary.
“Were you close?” Inevitably I get that question. Sometimes it’s right after a person finds out about my brother’s death; sometimes it’s only after a few weeks of their knowing me. Were we close? Not so close that I knew he was going to kill himself. Not so close that I understood why he did.
I knew his laugh, his smell. I knew the sound he made when he walked through our front door, the jingle of his keys, the particular way his shoes scraped on the floor. We didn’t talk, ho… (查看原文)
Bill
2011-03-27 18:57:44
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