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While working as a reporter in distant locales such as Yemen and Iraq, Finkel said he always carried a few books with him, one of which was “Common Ground...

Author: By Julie M Zauzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nieman Foundation Honors Nonfiction Writers | 3/31/2010 | See Source »

...David L. Finkel will receive the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize—named for two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner J. Anthony Lukas ’55—for “The Good Soliders,” a book on a battalion of infantry soldiers in the Iraq war, at a ceremony at the Nieman Foundation...

Author: By Julie M Zauzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nieman Foundation Honors Nonfiction Writers | 3/31/2010 | See Source »

...Finkel and Davidson will each receive a $10,000 prize...

Author: By Julie M Zauzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nieman Foundation Honors Nonfiction Writers | 3/31/2010 | See Source »

...Finkel said that he was especially gratified to learn that had received the accolade since “[Lukas’] work was really important in the kind of reporter I’ve become...

Author: By Julie M Zauzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nieman Foundation Honors Nonfiction Writers | 3/31/2010 | See Source »

...just finished a remarkable book called The Good Soldiers, by David Finkel. It is the best grunt's-eye view of the war in Iraq that I've read; certainly, it's the best written. But it also raises, implicitly, the mystery of our qualified success there. Finkel follows an Army battalion through the 2007 surge, as it attempts to secure a particularly nasty and neglected area of Baghdad. This was the first attempt to implement the Army's new counterinsurgency doctrine, and the troops have their doubts about the new tactics. Major Brent Cummings, the second-in-command, reads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Did the Iraq Surge Work? | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

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