Peter Cozzens interview

<p>Tonight’s guest is author and military historian Peter Cozzens. Peter is the author of seventeen very distinguished and critically acclaimed books on the Civil War and the American West. He recently retired after 30 years as a Foreign Service Officer with the U. S. Department of State. He also served four years as an Army officer before joining the Foreign Service.<br> <br> All of Cozzens' books have been selections of the Book of the Month Club, History Book Club, and/or the Military Book Club. In 2002 Cozzens received of the American Foreign Service Association's highest award, given annually to one Foreign Service Officer for exemplary moral courage, integrity, and creative dissent. He also received an Alumni Achievement award from his alma mater Knox College, from which he graduated summa cum laude.</p> <p>Tonight we discuss Peter’s latest work “Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation” which was released last October and has received many rave reviews from established literary critics across America.</p>