In his Lost Coast home, Alexander Cockburn recounts a personal history of Beat the Devil, the John Huston movie. When Lennard first read Beat the Devil – the book – she was amazed to discover James Helvick was the pseudonym for journalist Claud Cockburn, father of her friend Alexander. 2014, Elizabeth Lennard and CounterPunch.
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