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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: 3.84 · 8,299 ratings · 907 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd 3.84 avg rating — 2,336 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 3.85 avg rating — 2,109 ratings — published 2005 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 3.64 avg rating — 1,838 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 Knowledge 4.07 avg rating — 1,491 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour 3.84 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 3.79 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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	Everything You Know about Sex Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to the Extremes of Human Sexuality by Russ Kick (Editor), M. Christian (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Jenny Wade (Contributor) 3.92 avg rating — 324 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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“One pirate captain, in his cups, vowed: “If we swing our grappling hooks onto the clouds and attack Heaven itself, I’d aim my first shot at God.”
― Richard Zacks, The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd

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“You’ll piss when you can’t whistle,”
― Richard Zacks, The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd

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“Kidd’s gold might seed this Indies trading emporium that would pry Scotland out from under England’s heel.”
― Richard Zacks, The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd

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