Posts Tagged Politics
April 28, 2012 by admin | No Comments
Frank McGee has built a distinguished career as a writer and journalist over half a century. In the tumultuous 1960s he covered stories as far afield as Brazil, Indonesia, and Viet Nam. As managing editor of “Pace” magazine, a contemporary of “Life, Look, and Holiday,” he worked with thought leaders from around the world. During [...]
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April 20, 2012 by admin | No Comments
Hank Quense and his crazy imagination are sure to delight any fan of fantasy. Where do I begin? I met Hank almost two years ago now, when he sent me his book, Tunnel Vision, a collection of short stories for a review and when I found the book and its stories to be incredibly entertaining, [...]
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March 12, 2012 by admin | No Comments
Why are you so afraid of one-in-a-million events like shark attacks, child abductions or dying in a plane crash? Why are you so willing to believe elaborate scenarios about possible future climatic events from the same people who can’t even accurately predict tomorrow’s weather? Have you ever stopped to realize that so many of the [...]
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February 21, 2012 by admin | No Comments
Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win, Robert Creamer, 2007, ISBN 0979585295 Based on four decades of hands-on experience, this book shows how, for political progressives, being right on the issues is less important than being the winner. A campaign should concentrate their attention on two types of voters: persuadables, or [...]
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February 15, 2012 by admin | No Comments
We’re with Nobody: Two Insiders Reveal the Dark Side of American Politics by Alan Huffman and Michael RejebianReviewed by Geri Spieler | Released: January 24, 2012Publisher: William Morrow Trade Paperbacks (208 pages) “There is humor and personality in every paragraph of We’re with Nobody. The writing is intelligent, detailed, and intimate. While the authors don’t [...]
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February 4, 2012 by admin | No Comments
Reader Views is excited to be talking with Case Wagenvoord about his deeply satirical political book called “Open Letters to George W. Bush.” Case is talking with Juanita Watson, Assistant Editor of Reader Views. Juanita: Thanks for talking with us today Case. Please give us an idea of the content in your unique book “Open [...]
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December 3, 2011 by admin | No Comments
F. J. Colberg is a professional counselor and educator. Mr. Colberg is married, has three grown children, and lives in Puerto Rico. He has written “Multitudes at the Crossroads” as a result of his deep involvement with church ministry. Nostradamus step aside, F.J. Colberg has arrived. Powerful and believable is the way to describe “Multitudes [...]
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October 28, 2011 by admin | No Comments
Uproot U.S. Healthcare: To Reform U.S. Healthcare was written by someone who should know how to reform the system. Deane Waldman, MD MBA is both a practicing physician, as a pediatric cardiologist, and a speaker on healthcare reform. In Uproot U.S. Healthcare, Waldman engages the reader in more of a conversation than a lecture and [...]
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September 11, 2011 by admin | No Comments
A Political Thriller with a Christian Message Retired Millionaire Silas Jackson and several of his associates are deeply disturbed about the lack of moral leadership in a politically corrupt world. They perceive our nation as divided with a congress deadlocked in the midst of ethical chaos headed for major spiritual warfare. Silas and his colleagues [...]
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August 5, 2011 by admin | No Comments
Although Cuba is only ninety miles from Key West, Florida, the ideological split between the United States and Cuba has been insurmountable since the beginning of Castro’s revolution. In this book, the author Ian Michael James concentrates on the lives of three displaced Cubans as he intertwines their stories through the pages. Yet, while doing [...]
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August 3, 2011 by admin | No Comments
Inspired by the eloquent, yet deeply disturbing Greek tragedies of long ago, Blood of Paradise, is a dark novel, penned by one of today’s most passionate writers. David Corbett’s third novel, shines an unflinching and unapologetic light into the backrooms and back-alleys, corporate boardrooms and finally, the lofty and corrupt offices of the politicians sworn [...]
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July 14, 2011 by admin | No Comments
It is fifty years since Doris Lessing published Going Home, an account of her return to Rhodesia, the country where she grew up. By then in her thirties, she had already achieved the status of restricted person because of her political allegiances and her declared opposition to illiberal white rule. These days Zimbabwe makes the [...]
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July 12, 2011 by admin | No Comments
“The Heretic” is the sequel to “When Angels Have Risen.” Not having read the first one, I can easily say that this book stands well alone. This story begins in the life of Jerry Fletcher. He is a United States Senator during the time after The Second American Revolution. This is a time when the [...]
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