Gone Crazy and Back Again by Robert Sam Anson

“If a fellow reporter was cutting corners or not being aggressive in his questioning, he would call them out. “And he would call people out,” he added. “He talked back to editors,” Ken Auletta, a media writer for The New Yorker and a longtime friend, said in a phone interview. Salisbury called it “the story of a very young man at war, a tale that is told with gusto and excitement and captures a correspondent’s almost reckless pursuit of danger.”Īn opinionated man who was fiercely protective of his work, Mr.

In reviewing the book for The New York Times, Harrison E. Anson was taken prisoner of war in 1970 and held for weeks by the North Vietnamese and their murderous allies, the Khmer Rouge. “The wild man of his youth - and he was really out there - gave way to a journalist of towering bravery and ingenuity.”Īs a 24-year-old correspondent for Time magazine in Cambodia, Mr. “The thing about Bob was that he was both vulnerable and imposing at the same time,” Graydon Carter, the former editor of Vanity Fair, said in an email interview. Anson a glimpse into his kaleidoscopic life and Doug Kenney, the comic genius and co-founder of National Lampoon, whose life was anything but funny. Kennedy Tupac Shakur, in a piece written after the rap star’s death David Geffen, the music mogul, who allowed Mr.

Anson’s death.Īmong those he profiled were the director Oliver Stone, who at the time was making his controversial movie about the assassination of John F. “He, too, was magnetic and brash, turbulent and complex, passionate and fascinating,” David Friend, an editor at Vanity Fair, wrote in a tribute after Mr.

Gone Crazy and Back Again by Robert Sam Anson