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    “I Figured What the Hell”

    Jun 04, 2018 4 minutes
    Review by Graeme Wood
    ASSOCIATED PRESS

    REPORTER: A Memoir

    BY SEYMOUR HERSH

    Knopf, 368 pp., $27.95

    AFTER A CERTAIN AGE, old newsmen start shedding inhibitions and, in a spiral of crotchetiness, picking ill-considered fights with editors, colleagues, sources, and finally, readers. For Seymour Hersh, that age was 26, and his subsequent descent into terminal grouchdom has continued for almost six decades. “Fuck them before they fuck you,” a neighbor advised the young Hersh. The advice stuck. Hersh’s memoir bears the arid title Reporter, but Fuck Them would better convey the author’s diction, and his attitude toward enemy and ally alike.

    Hersh grew up on the South Side of

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