Famed author Rick Atkinson speaks on the Revolutionary War and his award winning book The British are Coming.
To read Rick Atkinson’s work is to travel from the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, to the hedgerows of Europe on the drive to Berlin. He crosses the desert sands of Iraq with the 101st Airborne, and he treads the contemplative grounds of Arlington National Cemetery. As a historian, he has received the Pulitzer Prize for writing about the Second World War in North Africa; as a journalist, he has earned Pulitzer Prizes for national reporting and public service reporting. Join us for an evening of conversation with one of America’s preeminent public intellectuals and most respected journalists.
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