Anonymous Source: At War Against the Media; A True Story

by Dan Cohen

Author Cohen, having been outed in the press as the source of records pertaining to the shoplifting conviction of the political rival of his client in a gubernatorial campaign, sued the paper for breach of contract as they had agreed to use him as an anonymous source. The case, Cohen vs. Cowles Media, eventually reached the Supreme Court and is now studied in First Amendment law. Here he provides his account of those events from the origins of his involvement in the political campaign to the eventual resolution of the case. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

240 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2005

About the author

Dan Cohen has served as President of the Minneapolis City Council and the Minneapolis Planning Commission. He is the author of Undefeated, a biography of Hubert Humphrey, a dozen children’s mini mysteries, a history of Breck School, and Anonymous Source, a personal memoir of his successful United States Supreme Court lawsuit. He is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Gail, also a Stanford graduate.