A Private War: Marie Colvin and Other Tales of Heroes, Scoundrels, and Renegades

A Private War is a fascinating book about the media, good and bad. Marie Colvin's story is the first in the book but it is not a book about her. The book looks at a variety of people from Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, Richard Jewell, Mahlia and others who have been examined under the media microscope. Many times it is not a flattering portrayal of the media in general. Over half the stories in the book you can say the media was to blame for making a situation worse.Marie Colvin's story is wonderfully told. If you see the movie, the book and the story have more humor than the film. There are instances where Colvin is more macho than the men and braver too. Her story is tragic and hopefully, one day, she will have justice.

I bought this book thinking it was just about Marie Colvin. The real treasure within the pages however is the writing of Marie Brenner. An author without a huge Twitter following, not that this is critical but it is a little surprising. The movie of the same name is based on Brenner's work about Marie Colvin and it is also a fine body of work. Where this book really opens eyes though, is her chapters on Trump. It explains with perfect mastery how Trump came to be the poster boy for chaos "leadership," if what he does in the White House could be considered leadership. The non-biased writing in these two chapters made me wish they'd have been mandatory reading for every American of voting age in 2016; hindsight. The rest of the book is a solid portrayal of Brenner's subjects, fact based reporting, and an engaging style of prose that keeps the reader wanting to learn more.

The riveting and tragic story of the murder of renowned journalist Marie Colvin in Syria. This is an important story to read. I highly recommend this book.

One terrific writer telling the story of another great writer and journalist... plus other stories. This is an important book, and very entertaining.

An excellent accounting of war journalists and other stories including Marie Colvin. It is well written and gives a seemingly accurate pictur

Completely satisfied with purchase. Thank you.

Book arrived in bent condition.Excellent read.

Once again, another book proving that fact is stranger than fiction, Marie Brenner’s collection of some of her major pieces of journalism introduces us to fascinating and moving stories that include the last days of Marie Colvin, a war journalist killed – probably assassinated – for her defiant and truth-telling coverage of the Middle-East. The story of Richard Jewell, a hero for three days before he was crucified by poor investigation and prejudice and became a suspect in the sports park bomb blast in Atlanta. He was eventually and fully exonerated, but died of heart failure at the age of 44. The other stories include that of Sammy Ghozlan and his fight to protect French Jews, Yousafzai Malala, the youngest Nobel Laurette and he fight for women’s freedom – and her own life. The story of the whistle-blower in the tobacco industry, Jeffrey Wigand is still fresh. It is another blow to corporate America and its lack of ethics founded on pure capitalist greed. All these stories concern discrimination and dishonesty, and the story that captures them most of all is that of the vignette into the life and character of Donald Trump in his days with Ivana. Nothing has changed, but in the meantime, we must not forget the heroism that goes along with some of these stories, especially that of Jewell and Wigand's.

This book is a lie...it's not the story of Marie Colvin at all. It's not the full story of anything, just snippets of journalism about events with an assumption that the reader already knows the story. It's also really badly written, I found I kep having to read sentences again to understand what was being spoken about. Really awful, don't buy it.

I’m interested in factual observations of war experiences and this was excellent. A good account, well written

Excellent book. Well written and Illuminating articles. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

This book is FALSE advertising....leading purchaser to believe it is about Colvin's life...it IS NOT....if you want to read about Marie Colvin DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!!

Seules les 50 premieres pages parlent de l'histoire de Marie Colvin, la grande majorite du livre sont de vieux articles de la journaliste re-utilises.