In one of America’s leading reporters comes a deeply personal, extraordinarily powerful go through the most volatile crises he has witnessed all over the world, from New Orleans to Baghdad and beyond.

Dispatches from your Edge from the World is a reserve that gives us a rare up-close glimpse of what goes on when the standard order of issues is suddenly turned upside down, whether it’s an all natural disaster, a civil battle, or a heated political fight. During the last calendar year, few folks have observed more scenes about Dispatches from the Edge of chaos and discord than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking insurance on CNN is among the most touchstone of twenty-first century journalism. This publication explores in a very personal way the most important – and most dangerous – crises of our period, and the unexpected impact they experienced on his life.

In the devastating tsunami in South Asia towards the suffering Niger, and ultimately Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Cooper shares his own experiences of traversing the world, covering the world’s most astonishing stories. Like a tv journalist, he gets the gift of talking to an psychological directness that cuts through the barriers from the medium. In his first book, that enthusiasm communicates itself through a wealthy fabric of memoir and reportage, reflection and first-person narrative. Unflinching and absolutely engrossing, this is actually the story of an extraordinary year within a reporter’s life.