"I am an obsessive-compulsive reader and a history junkie. I brake by rote at every , I buy out museum bookstores, and for years my interest in colonial forts and villages so exhausted my two children that they are now permanently allergic to the past. I can tell you, right down to the hour, everything that happened at , and each setback that Franklin Roosevelt endured during World War II feels like it happened to me."
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Rinker Buck
(born December 29, 1950) is an American journalist and author of non-fiction books. He was awarded the 2016 in the non-fiction category for his 2015 book '
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