Book Review: Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper

Paperback Writer here...again. :)

Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper is not a happy book. It's a book about tragedy; his own and other's. At the age of ten, his father died of a heart attack; ten years later, his older brother, Carter commits suicide. So, Anderson Cooper really knows tragedy.

It chronicles his life as a fresh reporter chasing the big stories around the world (from Sarajevo to Sri Lanka to the war in Iraq to Hurricane Katrina) the reader has a chance to revisit these places through his gray, grimy glasses. He's seen and experienced it all. But it still does not help dull his pain or the pain of others.

In such a short book (it's only 207 pages) it reminds people that tragedy can happen at anytime and anywhere. He is constantly haunted by the deaths of his father and brother and says that it shaped him immensely.

Four out of five stars.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about him. And here is his information page on CNN and a link to his blog.