After that, contracts came sort of easily, and I either wrote or edited 16 books during the course of my foreign service career. It was a Book of the Month Club selection and a History Book Club best seller. It kind of languished because I didn't know what to do with it, but with the assistance of someone with publishing contacts, I was able to get it published in 1990. I started writing when I was an army officer and completed it during my first tour of foreign service. When did you start writing your first book? His most recent book, The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West, received the 2017 Gilder Lehrman Prize in Military History and was chosen by Smithsonian Magazine as one of the top 10 history books of 2016. Army, where his focus was on military intelligence. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, he served as a captain in the U.S. In 2002, he received the American Foreign Service Association's highest award for exemplary moral courage, integrity, and creative dissent. Department of State, where he served primarily in Latin America. He recently retired from a 30-year career as a foreign service officer in the U.S. Peter Cozzens '79 is the author or editor of 17 books on the American Civil War and the American West.
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