| Authors@Google: Dexter Filkins |
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Dexter Filkins visits Google's San Francisco,
CA office to discuss his book "The Forever
War." This event took place on September 24,
2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.
Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the
prizewinning New York Times correspondent
whose work was hailed by David Halberstam as
reporting of the highest quality imaginable,
we witness the remarkable chain of events
that began with the rise of the Taliban in
the 1990s, continued with the attacks of
9/11, and moved on to the wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq. Filkinss narrative moves across a
vast and various landscape of amazing
characters and astonishing scenes: deserts,
mountains, and streets of carnage; a public
amputation performed by Taliban; children
frolicking in minefields; skies streaked
white by the contrails of B-52s; a nights
sleep in the rubble of Ground Zero.
Dexter Filkins, a foreign correspondent for
The New York Times, has covered the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. Before that,
he worked for the Los Angeles Times, where he
was chief of the papers New Delhi bureau, and
for The Miami Herald. He has been a finalist
for a Pulitzer Prize and a winner of a George
Polk Award and two Overseas Press Club
awards. Most recently, he was a fellow at the
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at
Harvard University.
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