- Hardcover: 273 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group (Trd) (Mar 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385483198
- ISBN-13: 978-0385483193
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,774,034 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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News correspondent Leslie Cockburn has dined with the Cali Cartel, marched with the Khmer Rouge, hunted down the Black Turban in Afghanistan, pursued the Russian mafia to the Arctic Circle, shared pomegranate sauce with the Ayatollahs, and stopped a small Kurdish war, but she has never told these stories in a book-until now.
Cockburn was one of the first women to break into the tight fraternity of combat and third-world reportage when she began work at the London bureau of NBC News in 1976-where successful news gathering required "unorthodox tactics, stamina, and, for best results, a criminal mind." By the time she moved to CBS's "60 Minutes," Cockburn had interviewed Muammar Qaddaffi and Margaret Thatcher, been arrested as spy in Gambia, and effectively eliminated whatever doubts her colleagues might have had about a woman's ability to tackle the news business's most dangerous assignments.
A mother of three who has made a career of breaking down barriers, Leslie Cockburn has exposed the tobacco lobby in Washington and human rights violations in Cambodia, and her impact on foreign and domestic policy has been as powerful as her impact on the rights and prerogatives of working women. In an industry in which, as late as 1973, women had to lobby to wear trousers to work, Leslie Cockburn was determined to combine a strong family life with a strong professional life, sacrificing neither.
With a cast of generals, drug lords, rock stars, and kings, LOOKING FOR TROUBLE is the incredible story of a career that has spanned the history-making news events of the last two decades.
Cockburn was one of the first women to break into the tight fraternity of combat and third-world reportage when she began work at the London bureau of NBC News in 1976-where successful news gathering required "unorthodox tactics, stamina, and, for best results, a criminal mind." By the time she moved to CBS's "60 Minutes," Cockburn had interviewed Muammar Qaddaffi and Margaret Thatcher, been arrested as spy in Gambia, and effectively eliminated whatever doubts her colleagues might have had about a woman's ability to tackle the news business's most dangerous assignments.
A mother of three who has made a career of breaking down barriers, Leslie Cockburn has exposed the tobacco lobby in Washington and human rights violations in Cambodia, and her impact on foreign and domestic policy has been as powerful as her impact on the rights and prerogatives of working women. In an industry in which, as late as 1973, women had to lobby to wear trousers to work, Leslie Cockburn was determined to combine a strong family life with a strong professional life, sacrificing neither.
With a cast of generals, drug lords, rock stars, and kings, LOOKING FOR TROUBLE is the incredible story of a career that has spanned the history-making news events of the last two decades.
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Format:Hardcover
What makes this book great are the stories and characters Cockburn meets up with, not Cockburn herself or her writing. There's no doubt that she's covered a broad array of international incidents. But while the stories themselves are interesting, Cockburn sweeps through them too quickly, leaving you asking, "What just happened?" She also does some name-dropping, which grates on the nerves because most of them aren't relevant to her stories. At one point in the book she manages to point out that she had Mick Jagger at her dinner table before going on an assignment. A good read for some recent international history. But don't expect too much.
Format:Hardcover
I finished "Looking for Trouble" feeling unsatisfied -- I was impressed by Leslie's courage and stamina, but left untouched by her or any of the people she meets on her travels. There is a strange lack of human feeling in the book, an offshoot of her journalist background perhaps? As a result, her husband (who appears frequently in the text) is completely faceless, as are many of the famous third world figures she meets (with the exception of Saddam Hussein's son, who is well drawn). Despite this, the book is well worth reading for the insight she offers on US policy and UN intervention in Third World countries, and how this intervention causes as much trouble as good -- but it will leave you thirsty for more.
Format:Hardcover
The book was good in the beginning. After a while it got too detailed and unexiting.
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A page-turning suspense thriller by a superior writer.
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Published on 29 April 1999
Lively account of journalist's Third World coverage career
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Published on 26 Aug 1998
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