Seymour Hersh, Reporter: A Memoir, Sy Hersh. Knopf, June 2018, 368 pages When people are comforted by government lies, trafficking the truth becomes hellishly difficult. Disclosing damning facts is especially tricky when editors en masse lose their spines. These are some of the takeaways from legendary Seymour Hersh’s riveting new memoir, Reporter. Shortly before Hersh started covering the Pentagon for the Associated Press in 1965, Arthur Sylvester, the assistant secretary of Chain of Command: The … Hersh, Seymour M. Best Price: $0.25 Buy New $5.00 (as of 01:20 EST – Details) defense for public affairs, berated a group of war correspondents in Saigon: “Look, if you … Continue reading The Disappearing Iconoclast