Rick Atkinson

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Rick Atkinson is the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy--An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, and The Guns at Last Light--as well as The Long Gray Line and other books. His is currently writing the Revolution Trilogy, which began with The British Are Coming. His many awards include Pulitzer prizes for history and journalism. A former staff writer and senior editor at The Washington Post, he lives in Washington, D.C.

March 11, 2024

The Making of a President

In the early days of June, 1787, in the thick of the Constitutional Convention, a debate unfolded that would test the fate of the young American nation. Four years after the end of the American Revolution, the United States …