Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era

by Alexander Cockburn

Book Overview

"The implied narrative of this collection is the journalist's background, the imperial myths that helped to shape him, the impulse to exile and his encounter with the Reagan era. The background, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860911764
• ISBN13: 9780860911760
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 479 Pages
• Weight: 2.14 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great stuff

Cockburn is the master of the polemic. His words about Reagan, food, travel, *anything*, are worth reading.

No other book so devastatingly captures the 80s

I read this wonderful collection of super sharp essays by the 'last marxist' himself back in the late 80s. Still have the Verso paperback edition on my book shelf and have given it as gifts for one occasion or another over the years.Whether he is writing on Reagan, Thatcher or James Bond and travel his essays can not be beat for totally and unapologetically taking class analysis in a wildly creative and laugh out loud direction. Unpedictable, untrivial and totally original.Get it and remember why Reagan and his machine were so dispicable.