Reporter

''Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh''s warmth and humanity. Essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journalist the world over'' John le Carr¿b>

In the early 1950s, teenage Seymour Hersh was finishing high school and university - while running the family''s struggling dry cleaning store in a Southside Chicago ghetto. Today, he is one of America''s premier investigative journalists, whose fearless reporting has earned him fame, front-page bylines in virtually every newspaper in the world, a staggering collection of awards, and no small amount of controversy.

Reporter is the story of how he did it. It is a story of slog, ingenuity and defiance, following Hersh from his first job as a crime reporter for the Chicago City News Bureau, through his Pulitzer Prize-winning freelance investigative exposes, to the heights of his reporting for Th