PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Seymour Hersh established himself at the forefront of investigative journalism with an expose of the massacre in My Lai, Vietnam, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Since then he has uncovered stories that Washington would prefer remained hidden. From Kissinger's role in the Nixon Government to the expose of the military torture regime at Abu Ghraib prison, Hersh has consistently uncovered the uncomfortable truth behind US power in the world. He has won the George Polk prize five times, the National Magazine Award for Public Interest twice, the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism, the L A Times Book Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He writes regularly for the New Yorker and the London Review of Books.
At long last, we can all decide for ourselves what we think of Hersh's story. - The Week ( 28 Books to Read in 2016 ) One of America's greatest investigative reporters. - New York Times Magazine The most feared investigative reporter in Washington. - Guardian Hersh's exposes of gross abuses by members of the US military in Vietnam and Iraq have earned him worldwide fame and high journalistic donors. - Foreign Policy The last great American reporter. - Financial Times Quite simply, the greatest investigative journalist of his era. - David Remnick, Editor-in-Chief, New Yorker The Pulitzer Prize winner builds on his reputation as an iconic investigative journalist, skewering the conventional wisdom about the death of Osama bin Laden. - Kirkus Controversial ... Few aspects of the official version of Seal Team Six's killing of bin Laden in May 2011 survive Hersh's scrutiny. - Publishers Weekly Seymour Hersh is without a doubt the most important journalist in the United States...[The Killing of Osama bin Laden] is a masterpiece of investigation. - Jonathan Sturgeon, Flavorpill It is the demands of state secrecy, their distressing effects on U.S. foreign policy - and ultimately their subversion of the democratic process - that unify the four essays in Seymour Hersh's The Killing of Osama Bin Laden...an explosive account. - Zach Dorfman, LA Times
