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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.

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).

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.

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

You either like Anderson Cooper or you don't. Regardless, he knows how to write a great book. Very hard to put the book down. It seems like he's seen it all in our world. Mixed in with that is a lot of information about his formative years and what makes him tick. Didn't think I would like this book at all but it ending up being one of my most favorite reads of the year.