Journalist. Simon Winchester was British by birth, but became an American, and was fascinated by things that most Americans either take for granted or don't even know in the first place.

He ended up writing a book about inventors, innovators and explorers who built this country. In this 2013 interview, Winchester goes into detail about his book The Men Who United the States.

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