Alexander Cockburn (pronounced coburn) (born June, 1941) is a radical Irish journalist well-known for his eloquently-worded polemics. He has lived in the United States for many years. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair he edits the political newsletter Counterpunch.

Cockburn was born in Scotland and grew up in County Cork, Ireland. His father was the well-known socialist author and journalist Claud Cockburn. After studying at Oxford, he worked in London as a reporter and commentator, writing extensively for The Village Voice, The New York Review of Books, Esquire, and Harper's. He now writes a regular column, Beat the Devil, for The Nation and a weekly syndicated column for the Los Angeles Times.

Cockburn has two brothers, Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn who are also journalists.

Table of contents
1 Books
2 Compact disk
3 External link

Books

  • Idle Passion: Chess and the Dance of Death (1975)
  • Smoke: Another Jimmy Carter Adventure (1978)
  • Corruptions of Empire (1988)
  • The Fate of Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon (1989)
  • The Golden Age Is in Us: Journeys and Encounters (1995)
  • Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press (1998) (with Jeffrey St. Clair)
  • Washington Babylon (1996)
  • Five Days That Shook The World: The Battle for Seattle and Beyond (2000) (with Jeffrey St. Clair)
  • Al Gore: A User's Manual (2000) (with Jeffrey St. Clair)
  • Counterpunch: The Journalism That Rediscovers America (2002) (with Jeffrey St. Clair)
  • Trials of Sex (with Jeffrey St. Clair)
  • The Politics of Anti-Semitism 2003 (co-edited with Jeffrey St. Clair)

Compact disk

  • Beating the Devil: The Incendiary Rants of Alexander Cockburn

External link

Alexander Cockburn was also a British lawyer who served as Attorney General in the 19th century.