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Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era, by Alexander Cockburn (Verso, 479 pp., $22.95)

In 1973 Alexander Cockburn arrived in this country from London to embark on a career of denouncing capitalists and frolicking with heiresses. He has been a brilliant success as both socialist and socialite, exploiting the contradictions of capitalism so adroitly that he got himself a regular column in the Wall Street Journal, besides the one he writes for The Nation.

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Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era, by Alexander Cockburn (Verso, 479 pp., $22.95)

In 1973 Alexander Cockburn arrived in this country from London to embark on a career of denouncing capitalists and frolicking with heiresses. He has been a brilliant success as both socialist and socialite, exploiting the contradictions of capitalism so adroitly that he got himself a regular column in the Wall Street Journal, besides the one he writes for The Nation.