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...other four finalists for the non-fiction award title are journalists Dexter Filkins??who was a Nieman Foundation fellow at Harvard two years ago—and Jane Mayer; political historian and American University professor Allan J. Lichtman; and University of Kentucky history professor George C. Herring...
...loss in the fourth quarter of the game, saying that “in the space of just a couple hours, you could feel the wind go out.” At the end of the lecture, audience member Michelle A. Payne, whose brother served in Filkins??s unit, asked Filkins about an episode in his book, in which an excursion by Filkins and his photographer resulted in the death of a marine. Payne said her brother had criticized Filkins??s involvement in the marine’s death, and that she . She later said...
...contrast, should historians of the future ignore such brilliant works of reportage as Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower or Dexter Filkins?? masterful account of his period in Iraq—The Forever War? Indeed, I have seen first-hand how rigorously Mr. Wright, a personal friend and distinguished journalist, pursues the finest, epiphanal details that are so often ignored by professional historians. The 60 pages of footnotes and list of more than 500 individuals he interviewed for his “journalistic” work would do any historian proud...
...journalists from the United States and around the world for its 69th class of fellows, including Dexter Filkins, a Baghdad correspondent for the New York Times. Like several of the other fellows, he will focus his studies the U.S.’s interaction with the Islamic world. Filkins?? research will examine the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and look at the relationship between the Western and Islamic worlds after September 11th. Eliza Griswold, another Nieman fellow and a freelance journalist whose byline has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine and The New York...
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