The Pulitzer-winning journalist who uncovered the My Lai massacre made his bones on Chicago's hardscrabble streets, not far from where his father had a dry-cleaning store. In this swashbuckling memoir, Hersh, now 81, recalls his epic career, including historic scoops during the civil rights era and Watergate. The early piece of reporting advice that started him on his way? "If your mother says she loves you, check it out."
— Leigh Haber
