Rick Beyer
Rick Beyer is a best-selling author, an award-winning filmmaker and long-time history enthusiast. His newest book, Rivals Unto Death traces the thirty-year rivalry of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. "In this fascinating dual biography, Beyer brings these two towering figures to vivid life on the page." --New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides.Beyer is the co-author (with Elizabeth Sayles Sayles) of the New York Times bestseller The Ghost Army of World War II How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks Sound Effects and Other Audacious Fakery. Beyer has spent nearly a decade researching this story. His award-winning documentary film about the unit, The Ghost Army premiered on PBS in 2013. The San Francisco Chronicle called the film “mesmerizing,” while TV Guide referred to it as “entrancing.” Beyer has also produced documentary films for The History Channel, A&E, National Geographic, the Smithsonian and others. He is the author of The Greatest Stories Never Told series of history books published by Harper Collins, and described by the Chicago Tribune as “an old fashioned sweetshop full of tasty morsels.” Beyer has shared his unique take on history in interviews on CBS, MSNBC, CNN, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, NPR, Fox News, and audiences around the country. He has also worked as a radio reporter, a TV news producer, an ad agency creative director, and a janitor (not in that order). And here's a few other things he's done. •Camp for ten days in the mosquito-infested Siberian Wilderness •Flee New Orleans the day before Katrina •Interview Jimmy Carter in the White House •Climb Mt. Washington 5 times •Get called stupid by David Brinkley •Be consoled by Mary Tyler Moore •Marry a beautiful woman during a lightning storm A graduate of Dartmouth College, Beyer lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, with his wife, Marilyn Rea Beyer (see above about the lightning storm!)
9 Books Written
The Greatest Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy
by Rick Beyer
Rating: 3.8 ⭐
100 fascinating, unexpected, and startling stories you didn’t learn in history class, presented by The History Channel History is filled with unpredictable people and unbelievable stories. • The Pilgrims landed in Plymouth because they ran out of beer. • Annie Oakley almost shot Kaiser Wilhelm before WWI. • Three cigars changed the course of the Civil War. • The stethoscope was invented when a mod
The Greatest War Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Military History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy
by Rick Beyer
Rating: 3.8 ⭐
Rick Beyer, the author of the acclaimed History Channel® series The Greatest Stories Never Told, returns with new historic tales, this time focusing on amazing war stories Search the annals of military history and you will discover no end of quirky characters and surprising true stories: The topless dancer who saved the Byzantine Empire; the World War I battle that was halted so a soccer game coul
The Greatest Science Stories Never Told: 100 Tales of Invention and Discovery to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy
by Rick Beyer
Rating: 3.9 ⭐
100 tales of invention and discovery to astonish, bewilder, & stupefy •Meet the angry undertaker who gave us the push-button phone. •Discover how modesty led to the •Find out why Albert Einstein patented a refrigerator. •Learn how a train full of trumpeters made science history. Did you know about: •The frustrated fashion designer who c
Decorative Fish Carving
by Rick Beyer
Carving fish offers the widest possible wide range for artistic orginality and expression for the woodcarver. It is a new hobby in the world of decorative wildlife carving, one that is growing rapidly in popularity. Decorative Fish Carving, by world-champion carver Rick Beyer, is an excellent guide to the craft for those just starting out and an inspiration to all woodcarvers. Beyer explains which
A 48 page catalog for the Ghost Army museum exhibit featuring art and photographs created by artists in the Ghost Army, a unique WW II deception unit. In 1944, an unusual group of American GI s landed in Europe to carry out one of the most bizarre missions of World War II. Their job was to use inflatable tanks, sound effects records, radio trickery and other illusions to create a traveling road sh
The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery
by Rick Beyer
Rating: 4.0 ⭐
In the summer of 1944, a handpicked group of young GIs—including such future luminaries as Bill Blass, Ellsworth Kelly, Arthur Singer, Victor Dowd, Art Kane, and Jack Masey—landed in France to conduct a secret mission. Armed with truckloads of inflatable tanks, a massive collection of sound-effects records, and more than a few tricks up their sleeves, their job was to create a traveling road show
From the bestselling author of The Greatest Stories Never Told series, the epic history of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's illustrious and eccentric political careers and their fateful rivalry.The famous duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr was the culmination of a story three decades in the making. Rivals unto Death vividly traces their rivalry back to the earliest days
The Greatest Music Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Music History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy
by Rick Beyer
Rating: 3.6 ⭐
RickBeyer, author of the highly successful History Channel series The Greatest Stories Never Told returns with new historic tales from the world of music—ennobling, entrancing and inevitably surprising stories of soaring genius, tantalizing scandal, nefarious intrigue, and, above all, unbridled passion for music.