Rick left the newspaper world in the year 1999 in order to write about World War Ii, a consuming interest that started with his birth in Germany and was rekindled during his three year tour in Berlin. Geraldine Ferraro (the first female vice presidential candidate from a major party), and national topics. He wrote about the 1984 presidential election, defense issues, and covered Rep. He was hired as a reporter on The Washington Post’s national staff in November of 1983. Then in April of 1977, he joined The Kansas City Times’ Staff, working nights in suburban Johnson County, Kansas before he moved to the city desk and later serving as a national reporter by 1981 he had joined the newspaper’s bureau in Washington, D. In 1975, while he was visiting his parents for Christmas at Fort Riley, Kansas, he found a job at The Morning Sun as a newspaper reporter in Pittsburg, Kansas, covering local government, crime, and other topics in southeast Kansas. Rick received a master of arts degree in English literature and language in 1975 from the University of Chicago. After he turned down an appointment to West Point, he attended East Carolina University on a full scholarship, graduating in 1974 with a bachelor of arts degree in English. Rick Atkinson was born Novemin Munich, Germany to Margaret and Larry Atkinson, a US Army officer, and as a result, he grew up on different military bases around the world.
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