While it may not seem like much these days, during Argentina's "Dirty War" the Buenos Aires Herald stood up heroically against the dictatorship when few others in media did. The editor at the time, Robert Cox, risked his own (and his family's) life to tell the truth, and now his son, CNN Web producer David Cox, has written a book about his father's life reporting on the run-up to a 1976 military coup and the chaos that ensued, "Dirty Secrets, Dirty War - The Exile of Editor Robert J. Cox". (The book came out in December, but the first article I've seen about it--this AP story--came out today.)

Why did the son and not the man himself write it? "This is the book that I could not write," the elder Cox, 75, says in the foreword. "I still find it too painful to relive those malevolent times by writing about them."