The Killing of Osama Bin Laden by Seymour M Hersh
Electrifying investigation of White House lies about the assassination of Osama bin Laden
Vintage HershIt takes issue with every part and participle of the story about Osama bin Laden's death. * Times Literary Supplement *
It is the demands of state secrecy, their distressing effects on US 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. * Los Angeles Times *
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 *
Hersh's account is more plausible than the official version and more thought-provoking than the movie Zero Dark Thirty, which dramatised the hunt for Bin Laden . my bet is that he's got closer to the truth about Bin Laden's death than anyone else has yet. * Independent *
The Killing of Osama bin Laden is the clearest articulation of how US policy on the Middle East has shifted, with often damaging consequences . Required reading for those seeking firm answers from US presidential candidates before they take office. -- Joseph Dana * LA Review of Books *
Seymour Hersh's theories surrounding the killing of Osama bin Laden and recent events in Syria are forceful. * Guardian *
A devastating critique. -- Tony Norman * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *
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 *
Hersh's exposés of gross abuses by members of the US military in Vietnam and Iraq have earned him worldwide fame and high journalistic honors. * 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 *
Few aspects of the official version of Seal Team Six's killing of bin Laden in May 2011 survive Hersh's scrutiny. * Publishers Weekly *
Riveting, provocative . a critical book for anyone concerned with the importance of truth in democratic governance. * PopMatters *
I've long admired the skill and independence with which Hersh has brought important and concealed information to light -- Ahmed Rashid * New York Review of Books *
It is the demands of state secrecy, their distressing effects on US 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. * Los Angeles Times *
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 *
Hersh's account is more plausible than the official version and more thought-provoking than the movie Zero Dark Thirty, which dramatised the hunt for Bin Laden . my bet is that he's got closer to the truth about Bin Laden's death than anyone else has yet. * Independent *
The Killing of Osama bin Laden is the clearest articulation of how US policy on the Middle East has shifted, with often damaging consequences . Required reading for those seeking firm answers from US presidential candidates before they take office. -- Joseph Dana * LA Review of Books *
Seymour Hersh's theories surrounding the killing of Osama bin Laden and recent events in Syria are forceful. * Guardian *
A devastating critique. -- Tony Norman * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *
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 *
Hersh's exposés of gross abuses by members of the US military in Vietnam and Iraq have earned him worldwide fame and high journalistic honors. * 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 *
Few aspects of the official version of Seal Team Six's killing of bin Laden in May 2011 survive Hersh's scrutiny. * Publishers Weekly *
Riveting, provocative . a critical book for anyone concerned with the importance of truth in democratic governance. * PopMatters *
I've long admired the skill and independence with which Hersh has brought important and concealed information to light -- Ahmed Rashid * New York Review of Books *
Seymour Hersh has written for the New Yorker and the London Review of Books, as well as serving as a Washington correspondent for the New York Times. He established himself at the forefront of investigative journalism more than four decades ago with an expose of the massacre in My Lai, Vietnam, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Since then he has uncovered stories from Kissinger's role in the Nixon Government to the expose of the military torture regime at Abu Ghraib prison. He has won the George Polk prize five times, twice the National Magazine Award for Public Interest, the L A Times Book Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784784362 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784784362 |
| Title | The Killing of Osama Bin Laden |
| Author | Seymour M Hersh |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2016-04-12 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
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