Tales From the Front Lines: Reporting From Iraq and Afghanistan
b'Dexter Filkins is one of the most respected combat journalists of his generation. His 2008 book, The Forever War, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best Nonfiction Book and was named a best book of the year by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time and the Boston Globe. As part of a team of New York Times reporters, Filkins won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for dispatches from Pakistan and Afghanistan. In this lecture, he retraces the seven years he spent covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, using vivid images by some of the best photojournalists working today. Filkins\\u2019 intimate knowledge of many of the main actors \\u2013 American, Iraqi and Afghan \\u2013 in two of the most polarizing wars in American history gives him a unique perspective on these contemporary conflicts. Series: "Voices" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 24901]'