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Richard Zacks

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in Savannah, Georgia, The United States

January 01, 1955

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Richard Zacks (1955-?) was born in Savannah, Georgia but grew up in New York City. He was a Classical Greek major at the University of Michigan and studied Arabic in Cairo, Italian in Perugia, and French in the vineyards of France.. After completing Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, he wrote a syndicated column for four years carried by the NY Daily News, Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News and many others.He keeps a hole-in-the-wall office in Manhattan and lives just outside the city limits in an 1897 stucco house, once used by bootleggers.

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Average rating: 3.82 · 3,100 ratings · 453 reviews · 5 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd 3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 925 ratings — published 2002 — 19 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Underground Education: The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human 4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 794 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines & the Secret Mission of 1805 3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 743 ratings — published 2005 — 18 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean up Sin-loving New York 3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 545 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History Laid Bare: Love, Sex & Perversity from the Ancient Etruscans to Warren G. Harding 3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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