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Rick Atkinson wins Fraunces Tavern Museum 2020 Book Award

February 19, 2021

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Former Washington Post reporter Rick Atkinson will accept the Fraunces Tavern Museum 2020 Book Award for The British are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777. This annual prize recognizes the best newly published work on the American Revolution.

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