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Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History His work has been featured in a number of publications, and he has appeared as a commentator on such programs as the History Channel’s Russia: Land of the Tsars and The French Revolution.


A former writer and editor at The Washington Post specializing in history, he is coauthor of The Century: History as It Happened on the Front Page of the Capital’s Newspaper. Michael Farquhar is the author of A Treasury of Royal Scandals, A Treasury of Great American Scandals, and A Treasury of Deception.
