T.H. White

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RFK Jr. discusses reading this book when he was young, during his uncle's presidency. He describes it as a book about young King Arthur and mentions that T.H. White was both a brilliant author and a British falconer. The book contains a chapter about Arthur apprenticing as a falconer, which inspired RFK Jr. to pursue falconry himself.

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Tom's favorite historical retelling of the Arthurian story, discussed including the unpublished 'Book of Merlin' which White wrote in 1940 as a pacifist work

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Tom mentions it was cited in Dominic's book as an influence on Harry Potter. Part of the broader discussion about the literary antecedents of J.K. Rowling's work.