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Features, Interviews August 14, 2019 August 14, 2019

This Week on Dispatches: Rick Atkinson on The British Are Coming

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On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews Pulitzer-prize winning author Rick Atkinson about his latest book, the best-selling The British are Coming: The War…

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Interviews November 18, 2015 July 28, 2016

9 Questions with Rick Atkinson

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Learning that one of the most acclaimed military writers of our time has turned his narrative expertise towards the American Revolution is exciting news…

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1. Mark Anderson Revolutionary “Last Words”

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3. Stephen Fried Revolutionary “Last Words”

Benjamin Rush's last words are frequently mis-identified. Most earlier biographies rely on a letter from his son James, who records Rush's last words to him as if they were his…