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Washington’s Spies: An Interview with Alexander Rose

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Education, News, History

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2015

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

SPY Historian Vince Houghton sat down with historian and author Alex Rose, whose book Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring, is the source material for AMC Network’s series TURN. Drs. Houghton and Rose (who is a writer and co-producer of TURN) discuss history on TV, and the plotline of the second season of the hit series. They also take time to focus on the real history of the period, what is history and what is “Hollywood”, the Culper spy ring, and the importance of intelligence during the American Revolution.

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That's spycloud.com slash cyberwire and we thank spy cloud for sponsoring our show. Hello and welcome to SpyCast from the Secret Files of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

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I'm Dr. Vince Hoat, the Museum's historian and curator.

1:36.0

Every month, the museum brings you interesting talks

1:39.0

with authors, scholars, and practitioners

1:42.0

who live in the world of global espionage.

1:44.0

Join us as we take a closer look at the secret world of intelligence. Turn Washington Spies. Get a season pass now on iTunes. We are joined today by Alexander Rose, an author and historian.

2:05.0

He was born in the United States, but raised in Australia and Britain, and educated at Cambridge

2:09.3

University, where he was awarded a doctorate for his thesis, Radar Strategy,

2:13.3

the Air Delema in British politics, 1932 to 1937.

2:17.4

After this, he worked as a journalist for several years,

2:19.4

including as an editorial writer for the Daily Telegraph and the National Post of Canada.

2:25.0

He is the author of Washington Spies, The Story of America's First Spiring, which is the basis

2:30.0

for AMC series Turn, and now second season called Turn Washington Spies,

2:35.6

where he's a consultant on the first season, now a writer and co-producer of the second season.

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