cover image Corruptions of Empire

Corruptions of Empire

Alexander Cockburn. Verso, $39.95 (554pp) ISBN 978-0-86091-940-7

``His work is pungent, witty and without pretense to that `objectivity' he so rightly sees as the bane of much written and all televised journalism,'' wrote PW , calling this collection of Cockburn's columns from the Nation , the Wall Street Journal et al., ``ferociously entertaining.'' (Jan.)