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A conversation with journalist and author Rick Atkinson
with Rick Atkinson on Oct 1, 2007
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with Rick Atkinson on Oct 1, 2007
Rick Atkinson is an American journalist and author.
Atkinson won a Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for national reporting for a series on the West Point Class of 1966 while working at the “Kansas City Times.” He was a writer and editor at “The Washington Post” for twenty years, and he served as the assistant managing editor of “The Washington Post” Investigative Section and edited a police investigative series, which won the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service. Among his bestselling books is “An Army at Dawn,” the first volume of the “The Liberation Trilogy,” which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for History. During the 2003 Invasion of Iraq he was an embedded journalist with the 101st Airborne Division, an experience he recounted in his book, “In the Company of Soldiers.” He has also written “The Long Gray Line” and “Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War.”
Source - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Atkinson
