# Rick Atkinson: Perspective and History

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Podcast: [The Strategerist](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-strategerist-534552)
Published: 2026-03-19T15:40:42+00:00
Episode link: https://www.bushcenter.org/strategerist
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## Resource

Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer prize-winning historian and author of The Revolution Trilogy and The Liberation Trilogy, sat down with Strategerist host Andrew Kaufmann to reflect on the idea of perspective and history; how to make judgment calls with 250-year-old material; and how to approach the cliff hanger when the story has already been told many times before.

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