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A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
HarperCollins
June 2006
224 pages
ISBN: 0061132381
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and
conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose
groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch
the news. In this gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful
memoir, he offers an unstinting, up-close view of the most
harrowing crises of our time, and the profound impact they
have had on his life. After growing up on
Manhattan's Upper East Side, Cooper felt a magnetic pull
toward the unknown, an attraction to the far corners of the
earth. If he could keep moving, and keep exploring, he felt
he could stay one step ahead of his past, including the fame
surrounding his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, and the tragic
early deaths of his father and older brother. As a reporter,
the frenetic pace of filing dispatches from war-torn
countries, and the danger that came with it, helped him
avoid having to look too closely at the pain and loss that
was right in front of him. But recently, during the
course of one extraordinary, tumultuous year, it became
impossible for him to continue to separate his work from his
life, his family's troubled history from the suffering
people he met all over the world. From the tsunami in Sri
Lanka to the war in Iraq to the starvation in Niger and
ultimately to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and
Mississippi, Cooper gives us a firsthand glimpse of the
devastation that takes place, both physically and
emotionally, when the normal order of things is violently
ruptured on such a massive scale. Cooper had been in his
share of life-threatening situations before -- ducking fire
on the streets of war-torn Sarejevo, traveling on his own to
famine-stricken Somalia, witnessing firsthand the genocide
in Rwanda -- but he had never seen human misery quite like
this. Writing with vivid memories of his childhood and early
career as a roving correspondent, Cooper reveals for the
first time how deeply affected he has been by the wars,
disasters, and tragedies he has witnessed, and why he
continues to be drawn to some of the most perilous places on
earth. Striking, heartfelt, and utterly engrossing,
Dispatches from the Edge is an unforgettable memoir
that takes us behind the scenes of the cataclysmic events of
our age and allows us to see them through the eyes of one of
America's most trusted, fearless, and pioneering reporters.
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