Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm, speaks to Jon Lee Anderson at 5x15

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The search for Freedom

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Monday, 19th July
Online via Zoom, 6.30pm (BST)
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** Freedom, Sebastian Junger
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Next week, join us at 5x15 online with best selling author and Oscar nominated documentary film maker Sebastian Junger.  He'll be in conversation with award winning New Yorker journalist and war reporter Jon Lee Anderson as they discuss community, individualism and an experiment in personal autonomy, but also in interdependence.

Throughout history, humans have been driven by the quest for two cherished ideals: community and freedom. The two don’t coexist easily. We value individuality and self-reliance yet are utterly dependent on community for our most basic needs. In his new book Freedom, Sebastian Junger examines the tension that lies at the heart of what it means to be human.

For much of a year, Junger and three friends – a conflict photographer and two Afghan war vets – walked the railroad lines of the East Coast of America. Dodging railroad cops, sleeping under bridges, cooking over fires and drinking from creeks and rivers, the four men forged a unique reliance on one another.

In this livestream event, Sebastian Junger talks about his new book Freedom, and weaves his account of this journey together with primatology and boxing strategy, the history of labour strikes and Apache renegades, the role of women in resistance movements, and the brutal reality of life on the Pennsylvania frontier.

Sebastian Junger is the #1 New York Times best selling author of The Perfect Storm, Fire, A Death in Belmont, War, Tribe, and Freedom. As an award-winning journalist, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a special correspondent at ABC News, he has covered major international news stories around the world, and has received both a National Magazine Award and a Peabody Award. Junger is also a documentary filmmaker whose debut film "Restrepo", a feature-length documentary (co-directed with Tim Hetherington), was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.

Jon Lee Anderson is an American author and journalist who began his career in the early 1980s, reporting on Central America’s civil wars for TIME magazine and other journals. As a New Yorker staff writer since 1998, he has covered numerous international conflicts, including those in Syria, Ukraine, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan, Angola, Mali, Liberia, and Central African Republic. He has reported extensively on Latin America as well. Anderson has profiled a number of international public figures such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Augusto Pinochet, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Hamid Karzai, Mahmoud Ahmadinajad and Charles Taylor, the Liberian war criminal. Anderson is also the author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life. Anderson has written several other books, including Guerrillas: Journeys In the Insurgent World; The Lion's Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan, and The Fall of Baghdad. He is also the co-author of Inside the League and War Zones:
Voices from the World’s Killing Grounds with his brother Scott Anderson.

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** Sebastian Junger, Jon Lee Anderson

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