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WikiLeaks founder a mercurial character who could not bear his own secrets, according to writer Andrew O'Hagan
By Esther Addley, The Guardian, 21 Feb., 2014
The ghostwriter who collaborated with Julian Assange on his abortive 2011 autobiography has broken his silence to describe his months working with the WikiLeaks founder, which culminated in the acrimonious collapse of one of the highest profile and most lucrative book deals of recent times.
Three years after he was first introduced to the Australian, Andrew O'Hagan has now spoken out about how he worked with Assange on the book, which he said the publishers Canongate had sold in more than 40 countries for a total of US$2.5m before the deal dramatically imploded. In a lengthy, nuanced essay for the London Review of Books, a version of which he delivered in a lecture in London on Friday, O'Hagan describes working with a mercurial character who was, by turns, passionate, funny, lazy, courageous, vain, paranoid, moral and manipulative [....]
My note: O'Hagan's article for The London Review of Books is not available publicly yet; their website currently has this notice: In the next issue, which will be dated 6 March, Andrew O’Hagan on Julian Assange.
Comments
Makes me like Assange even more - a fragile sometimes contradictory character - who like Abbie Hoffman had (has?) cause to be paranoid.
Note that "revealing all the hidden details of government" is not the same as "revealing all the hidden thoughts and actions of people". Think of an autobiography as a voluntary mini-dragnet... shudder. How many degrees of freedom?
BTW, the Guardian's writer who published a password revealing a major trove - a super dumb thing even if considered out-of-date - and blamed Assange on the cock-up, and the Guardian passed materials to the NYTimes without permission - thus *that* feud.
by Anonymous PP (not verified) on Sat, 02/22/2014 - 1:57am