Ebook: Julian Assange: the unauthorised autobiography

In December 2010, Julian Assange signed a contract with Canongate Books to write a book part memoir, part manifesto for publication the following year.At the time, Julian said: I hope this book will become one of the unifying documents of our generation. In this highly personal work, I explain our global struggle to force a new relationship between the people and their governments.In the end, the work was to prove too personal.Despite sitting for more than fifty hours of taped interviews and spending many late nights at Ellingham Hall (where he was living under house arrest) discussing his life and the work of WikiLeaks with the writer he had enlisted to help him, Julian became increasingly troubled by the thought of publishing an autobiography. After reading the first draft of the book at the end of March, Julian declared: All memoir is prostitution.In June 2011, with thirty-eight publishing houses around the world committed to releasing the book, Julian told us he...