One of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe, John Berger won the Booker Prize for his novel G. and advanced the art of documentary with the TV series Ways of Seeing. Drawing on first-hand, unpublished interviews and archival sources only recently made available, Joshua Sperling traces Berger's development from his roots as a postwar art student and polemicist in the Cold War battles of 1950s London, through the heady days of the 1960s and his reinvention as a rural storyteller.