States Dyckman: American Loyalist

by James Thomas Flexner

James Thomas Flexner has been a professional writer most of his adult life. After several year spent at the City desk at the New York Herald Tribune after graduating from Harvard University, Flexner went on to become one of America's foremost historians. He has written with great distinction in a unique style accessible to and enjoyed by the scholar and general reader, twenty-six books in the fields of American history and art. Although he is principally known for his historical books, notably his four -volume biography of George Washington, Flexner has written in many forms and for many outlets. He has written for print and television; he has been a lecturer, columnist, reviewer, and even a fiction writer.

Genres: History

238 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1992

About the author

James Thomas Flexner was an American historian and biographer best known for the four-volume biography of George Washington that earned him a National Book Award in Biography and a special Pulitzer Prize. A cum laude graduate of Harvard University, Flexner worked as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune from 1929 until 1931, after which he worked as an executive secretary for the New York City Department of Health before leaving the job the following year in order to devote his full energies to writing.

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[Fredrick Danysh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dyckman was a Tory during the American Revolution. He served in the British Quartermaster Department and took part in a scheme that defrauded the British Army of a large sum of money. After the war he went to England where for over twenty years he took part in the effort to resist refunding the money to Parliament.