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Pulitzer Prize-winner Rick Atkinson reflects on Revolutionary War’s violence
Atkinson says the war’s brutality helps explain the nation’s founding and the first two books of his Revolution Trilogy.
- Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rick Atkinson is examining the Revolutionary War's inherent brutality and complexity in his latest series, the Revolution Trilogy, aiming to move beyond hagiography.
- Atkinson describes the conflict as both a civil war and a global struggle, rejecting "fairy tales" or mythology. The war was "relentlessly violent," with atrocities committed by both sides, he notes.
- Historians often present either the good or the bad, Atkinson observed, but he seeks to portray both to make the "aspirational ambitions" of the founders real rather than abstract.
- To reach new audiences, a graphic edition adapted by Nora Neus and illustrated by Federico Pi is being developed to compress the narrative without oversimplifying the historical story.
- Renowned filmmaker Ken Burns has called Atkinson "among the greatest of all historians," following his acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the United States' role in World War II and The Long Gray Line.
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Rick Atkinson reflects on Revolutionary War’s violence
Rick Atkinson has won Pulitzer Prizes both for his reporting and for his work as a historian. He’s written about five wars, and his books include “The Long Gray Line,” the Liberation Trilogy about the United States’ role in the…
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