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Andrew Cockburn

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Andrew Cockburn
Born
Andrew Myles Cockburn

(1947-01-07) 7 January 1947 (age 76)
Alma materWorcester College, Oxford
OccupationJournalist
Spouse
(m. 1977)
Children3, including Olivia Wilde
Parents

Andrew Myles Cockburn (/ˈkbərn/ KOH-bərn; born 7 January 1947) is a British journalist and the Washington, D.C., editor of Harper's Magazine.

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Early life

Born in the London suburb of Willesden in 1947, Cockburn grew up in County Cork, Ireland. His father was Communist author and journalist Claud Cockburn.[1] His mother, Patricia Evangeline Anne (née Arbuthnot), was the granddaughter of British colonial administrator Henry Arthur Blake and British politician George Arbuthnot.[citation needed] .[2] The Cockburns are related to Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet, who ordered the Burning of Washington in 1814.[3]

Cockburn was educated at Glenalmond College, Perthshire, and Worcester College, Oxford.[4]

He has two brothers, Alexander Cockburn (1941–2012) and Patrick Cockburn, also journalists, and two half-sisters. One sister, Sarah, was best known as the mystery writer Sarah Caudwell. The other sister, Claudia, was a disability activist and married Michael Flanders, half of the well-known performance double-act Flanders and Swann; the two children of this marriage are the journalists Laura Flanders and Stephanie Flanders, Cockburn's half-nieces.

Career

Cockburn has written numerous books and articles, principally about national security. He has also produced numerous documentary films, principally in partnership with his wife Leslie Cockburn, as well as co-produced the 1997 thriller The Peacemaker, starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman, for DreamWorks. After an early career in British newspapers and television, he moved to the United States in 1979.[5]

His film The Red Army, produced for PBS in 1981, was the first in-depth report on the serious deficiencies of Soviet military power and won a Peabody Award.[6] In 1982, his book The Threat – Inside the Soviet Military Machine was published by Random House; it examined the same topic in greater depth.[7] He subsequently published many articles on the subject of US and Soviet military power as well as lecturing at numerous military bases, foreign policy forums, and colleges and innumerable television shows.[citation needed] After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he began covering Middle Eastern subjects, including the 1991 documentary on the after-effects of the first Gulf war, The War We Left Behind, which he co-produced for PBS[8] with Leslie Cockburn.

In 1988, Andrew and Leslie Cockburn wrote, produced and directed the PBS Frontline documentary Guns, Drugs and the CIA about the CIA's role in international drug dealings.[9]

In 2009 he and Leslie Cockburn produced American Casino, a feature-length documentary on the financial crisis of 2007–2008.[10] New Yorker critic David Denby called it "A terrific documentary... Everything is connected: the movie embodies chaos theory for social pessimists." Apart from his books he has written for National Geographic, the Los Angeles Times, the London Review of Books, Smithsonian, Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, CounterPunch, Condé Nast Traveler, The New York Times, and the Dungarvan Observer. He is Washington Editor of Harper's Magazine.[citation needed]

In 2007, Cockburn wrote Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy (subtitled An American Disaster in the UK edition). In The New York Times, reviewer Jacob Heilbrunn called it "perceptive and engrossing."[11]

He wrote "21st Century Slaves" for National Geographic, which reported on the practice of modern-day slavery. He authored Kill Chain – The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins (2015), which details the evolution of drone warfare, and the shift to assassination as the principal US military strategy. Kirkus Review called it "sharp-eyed and disturbing."[12]

Personal life

In 1977, he married Leslie Corkhill Redlich in San Francisco. They have three children: Chloe Frances, the actress Olivia Wilde, and Charles Philip.[13]

Bibliography

Books

[1]

Articles

  • Andrew Cockburn, "Big Six v. Little Boy" (review of Evan Thomas, Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War Two, Elliot & Thompson, 2023, 296 pp., ISBN 978 1 78396 729 2), London Review of Books, vol. 45, no. 22 (16 November 2023), pp. 9–12. In 1947 Henry Stimson, in an article written for him by McGeorge Bundy, argued that there had been no alternative to the atom-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as an invasion of Japan might have "cost over a million casualties to... American forces". However, in 1946 the US Strategic Bombing Survey had concluded that – thanks to the destruction of its economy by conventional bombing and a comprehensive blockade – "in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped." (p. 9.) General Curtis LeMay's B-29s had already laid waste to over 60 Japanese cities. (pp. 9-10.) Writes Cockburn: "[But t]he folklore endures. Among the exhibits at the US Air Force's... museum in Dayton, Ohio, is Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Nagasaki bomb. It is proudly identified as 'the aircraft that ended World War Two'." (p. 12.)

References

  1. ^ Hertzberg, Hendrik (24 July 2012). "Alexander the Great (and the Grating)". newyorker.com.
  2. ^ Cockburn, Claud (1981). Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography. Quartet Books. p. 135. ISBN 0704322668.
  3. ^ Sarah Booth Conroy (25 August 1991). "New Memories of an Old Flame". The Washington Post.
  4. ^ Cockburn, Andrew (1984). "About the author". The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine. Vintage Books. ISBN 9780394723792. Andrew Cockburn was born in 1947 and grew up in Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond in Scotland and at Worcester College, Oxford..
  5. ^ "The Spoils of War: Conversation with Author Andrew Cockburn". codepink.org. 26 October 2021.
  6. ^ "Andrew Cockburn". Responsible Statecraft. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  7. ^ Pierre, Andrew (1983). "The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine". foreignaffairs.com.
  8. ^ "Andrew Cockburn". Harpercollins.
  9. ^ "Guns, Drugs and the CIA". Alexandria, VA. : PBS Video. 1987. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  10. ^ LaSalle, Mick (21 August 2009). "Review: 'American Casino'". SF Gate.
  11. ^ Heilbrunn, Jacob (25 March 2007). "The Secretary We Had". The New York Times.
  12. ^ "Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins by Andrew Cockburn". kirkusreviews.com. 2015.
  13. ^ Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 120.

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