Rick Beyer is a best-selling author, an award-winning filmmaker and long-time history enthusiast. His newest book, Rivals Unto Death traces the thirty-year rivalry of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.
Beyer is the co-author (with Elizabeth Sayles Sayles) of the New York Times bestseller The Ghost Army of World War II How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks Sound Effects and Other Audacious Fakery. Beyer has spent nearly a decade researching this story. His award-winning documentary film about the unit, The Ghost Army premiered on PBS in 2013. The San Francisco Chronicle called the film “mesmerizing,” while TV Guide referred to it as “entrancing.”
Beyer has also produced documentary films for The History Channel, A&E, National Geographic, the Smithsonian and others. He is the author of The Greatest Stories Never Told series of history books published by Harper Collins and described by the Chicago Tribune as “an old-fashioned sweetshop full of tasty morsels.”
Book in order of publication:
The Greatest Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy – 2003
The Greatest War Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Military History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy – 2005
The Greatest Presidential Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder and Stupefy – 2007
The Greatest Science Stories Never Told: 100 Tales of Invention and Discovery to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy – 2009
First Shot: The Lexington Revolutionary Experience – 2011
The Greatest Music Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Music History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy – 2011
Artists of Deception: The Ghost Army of World War II – 2011
The Ghost Army of World War II – 2015
Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr – 2017
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