Nick Turse on the Fog of War

 

Nick Turse, author of the New York Times bestseller Kill Anything That Moves (2013), visits us on
Wednesday, Feb. 19th.

In The Nation's Investigative Fund's "The Backstory" project (about the art and practice of investigative journalism), Turse talks about the challenges of collecting data on civilian casualties in war zones, and in particular the challenges of writing his feature article for the October 7, 2013 issue of The Nation, "America's Afghan Victims."

Original article here:  http://www.thenation.com/article/176256/americas-afghan-victims#

Backstory interview here:  http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/backstories/1908/the_backstory:_nick_turse

More about Turse's upcoming visit to Albany here:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/turse_nick14.html

Photo:  Troops on patrol in Afghanistan Photo: Lewis Whyld/PA Wire

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The Obamians Reviewed in NY Times

James Mann, child of Albany, has a new book on President Obama's foreign policy team.

Leslie Gelb reviews it in the New York Times:  "Like the best reporters, Mann lets his subjects speak for themselves, then checks their fancies against the facts. He has given us a very good first cut at history."

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