From the Publisher
He''s faced his own execution, been fingered as an assassin, and
had guns jammed to his stomach and head. John Scully''s remarkable
career as a television journalist has taken him to seventy
countries and enabled him to create award-winning news stories and
documentaries for such giants as the British Broadcasting
Corporation and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
In this extraordinary memoir, Scully argues with terrorists in the
Middle East, dodges landmines in Africa, bribes the Vatican, and
travels with Evangelical Christians on a bizarre mission to
Jonestown. From Vietnam to Beirut to the present troubles in Iraq,
Scully examines terrorism, its roots, and its reasons as he tries
to answer the question, who is a terrorist?. But Scully
digs even deeper, exploring the disastrous effects of colonialism
from the Russians in Chechnya to the British in India and the
United States in Iraq.
Dramatic, deeply insightful, and often hilarious, Am I Dead
Yet? A Journalist''s Perspective on Terrorism points out just
how little Americans have learned from history.