08 October 2020
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With forensic detail, Andrew Fowler provides a ringside seat at the epic battle that has made Julian Assange public enemy number one of the United States. Since it was first published, his book The Most Dangerous Man in the World has been translated and distributed in countries from China to Romania and the USA to Russia.
Now, through recent interviews and the latest research, Fowler tells the extraordinary story of how a computer hacker turned multi-award winning journalist and publisher, with a turbulent childhood became holed up in London's Ecuador Embassy for seven years, and is now battling extradition to the United States from the notorious maximum security Belmarsh prison in London. Pentagon Papers whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg was called The Most Dangerous Man in America by the Nixon White House. In the Trump era, Ellsberg says Julian Assange, whose new journalism has made him powerful enemies, should be proud to be The Most Dangerous Man in the World.
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Andrew Fowler is an award-winning investigative journalist and a former reporter for the ABC’s Foreign Correspondent and Four Corners programs. Fowler began his journalism career in the early 1970s, covering the IRA bombing campaign for the London Evening News. He has been the chief of staff and acting foreign editor of The Australian newspaper.
Fowler first interviewed Julian Assange for Foreign Correspondent in 2010, for which the program won the New York Festival Gold Medal. He wrote the first edition of The Most Dangerous Man in the World in 2011. His two other books are The War on Journalism (Random House, 2015) and Shooting the Messenger: Criminalising Journalism (Routledge, 2017). He was also a Walkley Award and Logie finalist for a major corruption investigation.
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Bryan Dawe is one of Australia’s finest political satirists. He has enjoyed a long career on ABC radio and the speakers’ circuit performing his much loved characters Sir Murray Rivers QC and Roly Parks’ Letter from Kalangadoo.
On television he is best known for his work with the late John Clarke on the long running ABC’s Clarke & Dawe segment, and for his role in the acclaimed ABC Television series The Games.
Bryan has also appeared in various films including the hit Australian film The Castle. Bryan is also a highly accomplished visual artist having held many exhibitions of his surrealistic artwork over the past decade, both in Australia and Tangier. A new exhibition Alchemy will be held in October.
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