Peter Carlson

Peter Carlson is an American journalist and historian. After 22 years as a Washington Post, reporter, he is now a columnist for American History magazine. He is the author of three books-- "K Blows Top," a non-fiction comedy about Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America; "Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy," the true story of two Yankee reporters who were captured during the Civil War and escaped from a Confederate prison; and "Roughneck," a biography of Big Bill Haywood,...See more

Peter Carlson is an American journalist and historian. After 22 years as a Washington Post, reporter, he is now a columnist for American History magazine. He is the author of three books-- "K Blows Top," a non-fiction comedy about Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America; "Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy," the true story of two Yankee reporters who were captured during the Civil War and escaped from a Confederate prison; and "Roughneck," a biography of Big Bill Haywood, the radical American labor leader. See less