The compelling autobiography of one of the great & most committed newsmen of our time: full frank & occasionally very funny Jon Snow's memoirs are as revealing about the great & the not-so-good as about his own passionate involvement in the reporting of world affairs. Jon Snow is perhaps the most highly regarded newsman of our time; his qualities as a journalist & as a human being
- his passion warmth intelligence frankness & humour
- are widely recognised & evident for all to see most nights on Channel 4 News & now in the pages of his first book. His vivid personal chronicle is filled with anecdotes & pithy observations & delightfully records his life & times since becoming a journalist in the early 1970s. He reported widely on Cold War conflicts in Iran Iraq Afghanistan Eritrea Ethiopia Angola & Central America before becoming a resident correspondent in Washington D.C. in the 1980s & he has met & interviewed most of the world's leaders. Drawing lessons from these experiences he has pertinent things to say about how the increasing world disorder came about following the fall of the Berlin Wall; how the West's constant search for an enemy has helped unhinge the world; & how & why the media have in general been less than helpful in drawing attention to key political & global developments.