Her worst teacher? The one who would hit her over the head with a hard textbook because she asked a lot of questions. “Insolent puppy,” he would snarl.
“I didn’t [set out to write history]. It chose me. I set out to be in advertising, then fell into journalism, and then began to specialize in writing history.”
Rose is the author of “Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring,” which served as the basis for the AMC drama series, “Turn: Washington's Spies.”
