Beware What You Reveal About Yourself
AP
Julian Assange was reluctant to write his autobiography
Assange fails in bid to suppress own memoirs
By Jerome Taylor
The autobiography of Julian Assange is published today despite attempts by the WikiLeaks founder to suppress it after a bitter row with its publisher.
In the manuscript, excerpts of which appear exclusively in today's Independent, Mr Assange addresses for the first time the events that forced him into a costly extradition battle over allegations that he sexually abused two women during a stay in Stockholm last summer.
It appears despite his decision this year to withdraw his co-operation. After protracted efforts to secure either his consent to publication or the return of an advance worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, his publisher, Canongate, has decided to go ahead. The book offers a deeply personal insight into a man who, in less than a year, went from being an obscure former hacker to one of the world's most recognisable faces thanks to his organisation's explosive revelations. A whole chapter is devoted to explaining his side of the Swedish story.
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About Dale
I owe my life to Hitler, though I never met the man. My father was paid to stop Hitler, so there is no conflict of interest. I was given a thunk on the back o' the head by God when I was fifteen, and within a week began to write. I haven't stopped. My first...
Connections
Throwing Stones and Knowing One's Self
The undoing of Assange may well be (1) simple folk wisdom that he apparently never learned or considered himself exempt from (People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones) and (2) the oracle's even wiser observation "Know thyself."
To say nothing about agreeing
To say nothing about agreeing to this project in the first place.
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