Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions by John F. Burnett

Also in 2003, Burnett won a first place National Headliner Award for investigative reporting about corruption among federal immigration agents on the U.S.-Mexico border. duPont-Columbia University Award honoring the network's overall coverage of the Iraq War. His work was singled out by judges for the Alfred I. In 2003, he was an embedded reporter with the First Marine Division during the invasion of Iraq. In 2006, Burnett's Uncivilized Beasts & Shameless Hellions: Travels with an NPR Correspondent was published by Rodale Press. His 2007 three-part series 'The Forgotten War,' which took a critical look at the nation's 30-year war on drugs, won a Nancy Dickerson Whitehead Award for Excellence in Reporting on Drug and Alcohol Problems. Burnett has reported from more than 30 different countries since 1986. invasion of Iraq and its aftermath, and many reports on the Drug War in the Americas. His special reporting projects have included New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S.

In 2012, he spent five months in Nairobi as the East Africa Correspondent.

Though he is assigned to the National Desk, his beat has sometimes stretched around the world. As NPR's Southwest correspondent based in Austin, Texas, John Burnett covers immigration, border affairs, Texas news, and features, and does investigative reporting. The result is a revealing and personal account that will fascinate not only NPR listeners but also anyone interested in the state of our world today and how the media covers it. In Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions, Burnett exposes the hilarious moments, bizarre encounters, dangerous highways, insufferable colleagues, and unsung heroes he's known through his adventures as an NPR reporter. Now he fills in those rich tidbits, letting us witness the parts of the stories that remained off the air. But no matter how much time Burnett has on the air to report his stories-and how expertly he has done so-there are always valuable details that aren't mentioned. And he was one of NPR's lead reporters on 9/11 and its aftermath. He has covered the drug wars in Central America been embedded in a Marine Division in Iraq and weathered Hurricane Katrina, breaking news hourly on the conditions in New Orleans. Burnett has reported from the Branch Davidian standoff and the Kosovo conflict.

As a radio journalist whose work appears regularly on Morning Edition and All Things Considered, John F.

In this candid, intimate account, an award-winning 20-year veteran NPR correspondent takes readers behind the scenes of the major events of our time, letting us see what it's really like gathering the news on the front lines.

Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions by John F. Burnett