Encounters With the Sphinx: Journeys of a Radical in Changing Times

by Alexander Cockburn

Cockburn delivers his entirely new memoir "In the Midst of Life", a brilliant narrative that stretches back through the cold war and extends forward to the America of late 1989. Then he takes readers along an itinerary that wanders from San Simeon through New Orleans to Thailand and Paris, ending in the New York of Donald Trump.

Hardcover

First published October 1, 1993

About the author

Alexander Claud Cockburn was an American political journalist. Cockburn was brought up in Ireland but has lived and worked in the United States since 1972. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he edits the political newsletter CounterPunch. Cockburn also writes the "Beat the Devil" column for The Nation and a weekly syndicated column for the Los Angeles Times as well as for The First Post, which is syndicated by Creators Syndicate.