Am I Dead Yet?

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.</P>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 <I>who is a terrorist?</I>. 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.</P>Dramatic deeply insightful and often hilarious <I>Am I Dead Yet? A Journalist's Perspective on Terrorism</I> points out just how little Americans have learned from history.