Andrew Cockburn
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Journalist born in Ireland, who has lived in the United States for many years
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Andrew Myles Cockburn is a British journalist and the Washington, D.C., editor of Harper's Magazine. Early life Born in the London suburb of Willesden in 1947, Cockburn grew up in County Cork, Ireland. His father was Communist author and journalist Claud Cockburn. His mother, Patricia Evangeline Anne , was the granddaughter of British colonial administrator Henry Arthur Blake and British politician George Arbuthnot. . The Cockburns are related to Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet, who ordered the Burning of Washington in 1814.