Thurston Clarke is an American historian

Historian

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, author

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 and journalist

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Education and career

Clarke was educated at Yale University

Yale University

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, Columbia University

Columbia University

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 and the School of Oriental and African Studies

School of Oriental and African Studies

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, London

London

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Clarke is the author of eleven books, the most recent of which is The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America (2008).

Clarke is a frequent speaker on topics such as writing, modern history and travel. He lives with his wife and three daughters in the Adirondacks, in upstate New York. His daughter, Sophie Clarke, was a contestant on Survivor: South Pacific

Survivor: South Pacific

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, the 23rd season of the popular CBS reality television show.

Thurston Clarke is the son in law of British Ambassador, Julian Bullard

Julian Bullard

Sir Julian Bullard GCMG was a British diplomat, Foreign Office Minister and Pro-Chancellor of Birmingham University. He was employed at Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service from 1953 until 1988, the ambassador to Bonn in the mid 1980s as well as heading up Britain's relations with Soviet Russia during...

Non-fiction

• Dirty Money: Swiss Banks, the Mafia, Money Laundering, and White Collar Crime (1975) (with John J. Tigue)
• The Last Caravan (1978)
• By Blood and Fire: The Attack on the King David Hotel (1981)
• Lost Hero: The Mystery of Raoul Wallenberg (1982) (with Frederick E. Werbell)
• Equator: A Journey (1988)
• Pearl Harbor Ghosts (1991)
• California Fault: Searching for the Spirit of a State Along the San Andreas (1996)
• Searching for Crusoe: A Journey Among the Last Real Islands (2001) (reprinted as Islomania)
• Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America (2004)
• The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America (2008)

External links

• Official website