Anderson Cooper's new book "a memoir of loss"

[DeepModem Mom]

CNN: Anderson Cooper's journey
CNN anchor files 'Dispatches from the Edge'
By Todd Leopold
Thursday, June 1, 2006


CNN's Anderson Cooper drew on recent experiences and his own life for "Dispatches from the Edge."

(CNN) -- The cover subtitle calls "Dispatches from the Edge" "a memoir of war, disasters and survival."

Anderson Cooper is more succinct. He calls it "a memoir of loss."

Some of the loss is personal: Cooper, the CNN anchor and host of "Anderson Cooper 360," lost both his father and brother before he'd graduated college.

Some of the loss played out on the world stage. Cooper, who'd reported from Somalia, Rwanda and Bosnia while establishing a career as a journalist, spent 2005 going from Sri Lanka to Iraq to Niger to New Orleans -- a roll call of tragedy and death.

It was the last, the city and region devastated by Hurricane Katrina, that finally prompted him to write "Dispatches" (HarperCollins), he says in a phone interview from New York....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/05/31/anderson.cooper/index.html

[malaise]

1. I've always thought that despite his good looks

Anderson always looks sad. Now I understand - must be hard to lose your father and your brother. Suicide can be the hardest death to deal with - so many whys. I'll order his book.

[Suich]

2. I ordered the book after I saw him on Oprah.

I read it the same day it got delivered...couldn't put it down.

I gotta give the guy credit for going out on his own at a young age, when he could have lived off the family fortune.

[EmmitFitzhume]

3. How noble . . .

that he actually went out and worked for a living. I'm truly inspired.

Seriously, while his brother's suicide was tragic, I don't applaud him for doing something that the rest of us have done, working for a living, minus the aristocratic last name and money.

Maybe his numerous appearances will actually sell his book because he needs all the help he can get with his ratings going down the drain.

[CottonBear]

5. His mother lost all of her money because of bad investments & advisors.

Her life has been rather sad. The Vanderbilt name and fortune didn't help her at all in the happiness department.

[aikoaiko]

4. I've seen way too much of Coop promoting this book.

Almost to the point that I doubt I'll read it.