The Secret Life
DAVID SEXTON
15 hours ago
... O’Hagan started work, taping 50 hours of interviews with Assange, but it soon became apparent that Assange had no intention of honouring his side of the contract or helping the book to appear ... Eventually, after multiple defaults, and disputes over returning the advance, Canongate tried to salvage the situation by publishing this draft as it stood, as an “unauthorised autobiography” in September 2011. It was a flop ... O’Hagan remarks, “I’ve never been with anybody who made me feel so like an adult. And I say that as the father of a 13-year-old.” In one lapidary sentence he pronounces final judgement: “He is thin-skinned, conspiratorial, untruthful, narcissistic, and he thinks he owns the material he conduits.” Yet O’Hagan had started out as .. a WikiLeaks fan ...
http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/the-secret-life-three-true-stories-by-andrew-o-haga-review-a3560551.html
