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Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today we're with Rick Atkinson. He is a multi-Politzer

prize-winning author, historian, and journalist. Rick wrote a trilogy about World War II,

called Liberation Trilogy, for which he won a Pulitzer, and he is now out with

volume two of what will be a second trilogy about the American Revolution. This one is called

The Fate of the Day, and it's terrific. Rick, welcome. Thank you, Doug. We are also kindred

spirits in cocktail, because the Rye Manhattan is also my go-to drink.

You knew. You intuited somehow. We're in Manhattan. What else could we drink?

Good point, actually. And you just arrived on your flight up from D.C.

The train, yeah.

Oh, train, sorry, yeah. I'm actually heading down there on a flight next week, which is fun.

And you were just saying, as I opened this bottle of remuth with the foil, that for the listening audience, you're an Army brat.

I know you were born in sort of early Cold War era Munich.

That's right, yeah.

Right around the time of Stalin's death, right before it.

Just before it, yeah.

I didn't know him personally.

Yeah, my dad was an army officer.

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