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I loved every word. Anderson Cooper is a great writer and journalist. I think everyone should read Dispatches from the Edge. I give it an excellent review. His real life adventures are both sad and uplifting. He shows with his details the raw evil that comes from some people but he also can show with great depth the kindness and best can come out through the worst times. It is a must read book. It should be required reading in schools around the world. The wars and the graphic details need to be known and people need to learn to see and hear the pain and suffering of humanity. It is told as only Anderson can tell the story. It is even better when he reads it to you on the audio that I also have.
I really enjoyed reading this book. Anderson Cooper has opened his heart and parts of his soul to his readers. He has managed to make the reader feel the pain and loss in his global stories as well as in his personal life. Anyone who has ever lost a loved one or has travelled to war torn or famine stricken areas of the world will know that it is not easy to recover or continue from such devastation. Mr. Cooper shows us that he too has had to struggle with his emotional journey and that he is trying to come to terms with it. I congratulate him for allowing us to travel with him. I decided to buy this book as I have a huge respect for Anderson Cooper, especially after his Katrina coverage in August 2005.
This was our book club selection this month and I really wasn't expecting much, so I was pleasantly surprised. Anderson Cooper has seen his share of disasters, that's for sure. You can only imagine how jaded film crews and reporters must get jumping from one hotbed of disaster to another; they must think same horror, different day and place. Anderson Cooper may have been born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but you'd never know it to read his prose; he paints a vivid picture of recent wars and catastrophes, and he links in his own personal loss but reminds us that there is goodness in the world as well. A good, quick read!
This is a well-written and informative book. Anderson Cooper describes three major news events in the past year with gripping details and personal comments. As well as reporting his news experiences, he talks very candidly about himself and his life. Reading this book was a wonderful experience. I bought this book because I was very impressed with Anderson Cooper's coverage of hurricane Katrina for CNN. I wanted to read more about his experiences and about himself. I was not dissapointed. Highly recommended.
i need this book for a test in the college. In 2005, two tragedies--the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina--turned CNN reporter Anderson Cooper into a media celebrity. Dispatches from the Edge, Cooper's memoir of "war, disasters and survival," is a brief but powerful chronicle of Cooper's ascent to stardom and his struggle with his own tragedies and demons. Cooper was 10 years old when his father, Wyatt Cooper, died during heart bypass surgery. He was 20 when his beloved older brother, Carter, committed suicide by jumping off his mother's penthouse balcony (his mother, by the way, being Gloria Vanderbilt). The losses profoundly affected Cooper, who fled home after college to work as a freelance journalist for Channel One, the classroom news service. Covering tragedies in far-flung places like Burma, Vietnam, and Somalia, Cooper quickly learned that "as a journalist, no matter ... how respectful you are, part of your brain remains focused on how to capture the horror you see, how to package it, present it to others." Cooper's description of these horrors, from war-ravaged Baghdad to famine-wracked Niger, is poignant but surprisingly unsentimental. In Niger, Cooper writes, he is chagrined, then resigned, when he catches himself looking for the "worst cases" to commit to film. "They die, I live. It's the way of the world," he writes. In the final section of Dispatches, Cooper describes covering Hurricane Katrina, the story that made him famous. The transcript of his showdown with Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu (in which Cooper tells Landrieu people in New Orleans are "ashamed of what is happening in this country right now") is worth the price of admission on its own. Cooper's memoir leaves some questions unanswered--there's frustratingly little about his personal life, for example--but remains a vivid, modest self-portrait by a man who is proving himself to be an admirable, courageous leader in a medium that could use more like him.Read full review
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