CNN's current prime time hogger and a man with a very distinguished lineage, Anderson Cooper comes across as quite an intense character. Through his book "Dispatches from the edge", he explains various catastrophes he has been covering right from starvation in Somalia, war in Herzegovinia till hurricane in New Orleans.Not only does he talk about the plight of the people under these extreme circumstances, but also the differences and similarities he sensed. It is from a people's angle and does not go into lengths with too much of facts and figures. Emotions ride high when he remembers loud of his secured past when his father was alive.
This book is more of a personal memoir than a complete account of the events that have been described. Infact to be fair, the disasters seemed to me not as mere backdrops, but more of characters who took part in the author's life. There were some sections that i was particularly engrossed in, especially the account on hurricane katrina - you shake in disbelief that even in a developed country such things could happen. Find out yourself by accompanying Anderson Cooper on his various adventures, those which you or i would otherwise not experience!!!
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