Anderson Cooper is one of my favorite newscasters/journalists. He describes how his personal life and his life as a journalist merged. He was the one who, during and after Katrina, coined the phrase for watching the government as "keeping them honest". An interesting side note is his acknowledgement of the high he receives when in a chaotic world situation. Very good book.

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This is a wonderful book. Anderson wrote it in such a manner that world events take on a very peronal perspecive. You end up feeling a greater personal responsibility and connection to all the countries and particularly our own where the targedy of katrina was also made personal, and about how horrifying it was that our own government didn't do more. As I said, it is a poinent book, and it also has interwoven in the book, about Anderson Cooper's life; his own personal tragerdies, and about his life being a Vanderbilt (his motherwas gloria Vanderbilt).

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This book surprised me. Of course I know nothing about Anderson Cooper other than what I see on television, but this book is decidedly darker than I expected. Cooper reviews many of his travels into horrible parts of the world, along with delving into the suicide of his brother. I think a proper term for this book might be haunting.

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Cooper is a great writer and journalist. He did a great job of weaving his own personal history private tragedies throughout this memoir while never losing sight of the greater human tragedies and losses that were being experienced by those around him on a larger scale. Great read!

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I appreciated being able to follow the emotional impact of what high-risk journalism entails. He reveals a big part of his own story, as it relates to what he sees, very insightful!

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I'm sure most of us have heard and seen Anderson Cooper, but this book is an insight into the person behind the public face. He does an excellent job weaving stories of tragedies he views and reports on with the tragedies in his personal life - losing his father at an early age and the suicide of his brother. He tells of how a reporter in many ways divorces himself from the scenes yet on an inner level feels and reacts in ways that may come out later. I highly recommend this book to anyone who still sees humanity in this world where we see so much that we sometimes overlook the individuals involved.

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This book is good, but really depressing. He makes everything in the book clinical and extremely personal at the same time and I thought it was amazing how much he wanted to be a correspondent. His writing style was very engaging, while it was really hard to read some parts because he was in such terrible circumstances so often, I never wanted to put the book down. I felt terrible about so many of the things he's seen and been through, and even worse for the people that were living in the nightmares he describes and can't leave at the end of the story.

Do NOT read this if you are looking for something light, but it is SO worth reading.

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An extremely well written book. This man knows his subject very well and has the experience to back it up.

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