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THE INCONVENIENT JOURNALIST

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This beautifully written memoir is part thriller, part love story, part Cold War history.  The Inconvenient Journalist was written by Louise Branson after illness prevented her spouse and journalistic partner Dusko Doder from finishing it.

It centers on a Cold War Moscow night as the two journalists -- Doder with the Washington Post, Branson with the London Sunday Times -- were embarking on their love affair. Doder scooped the world and the CIA with a report of the Soviet leader's death.

Cold War-style revenge took the form of a CIA-sourced story in Time Magazine suggesting Doder had been a KGB spy.

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He won damages and an apology in court. But the smear changed his and Branson's lives. This important book about the price of reporting the truth and of love enduring through injustice is timely as journalism is under attack and reporting from Russia invites new perils.

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