The Killing of Osama Bin Laden by Seymour M Hersh
Electrifying investigation of White House lies about the assassination of Osama bin Laden
At long last, we can all decide for ourselves what we think of Hersh's story * The Week *
One of America's greatest investigative reporters* New York Times Magazine *
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. * L A Times *
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 *
Quite simply, the greatest investigative journalist of his era -- David Remnick * Editor-in-Chief, New Yorker *
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 *
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 *
One of America's greatest investigative reporters* New York Times Magazine *
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. * L A Times *
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 *
Quite simply, the greatest investigative journalist of his era -- David Remnick * Editor-in-Chief, New Yorker *
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 *
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 exposé of the massacre in My Lai, Vietnam, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Since then he has uncovered stories such as Kissinger's role in extending the Vietnam War as well as the military torture regime at Abu Ghraib prison. He has won the George Polk prize five times, the National Magazine Award for Public Interest twice, the LA Times Book Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784784393 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784784397 |
| Title | The Killing of Osama Bin Laden |
| Author | Seymour M Hersh |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2017-05-02 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
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