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Richard Rubin

Biography

Richard Rubin

Richard Rubin is the author of CONFEDERACY OF SILENCE. He has written for the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Smithsonian and New York magazine. He lives in New York and Maine.

Richard Rubin

Books by Richard Rubin

The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
by Richard Rubin - History, Nonfiction

In 2003, 85 years after the end of World War I, Richard Rubin set out to see if he could still find and talk to someone who had actually served in the American Expeditionary Forces during that colossal conflict. Ultimately, he found dozens, aged 101 to 113, from Cape Cod to Carson City, who shared with him at the last possible moment their stories of America’s Great War.