A picaresque story beginning 1938 in the Philippines and General MacArthur, 1942 Guadalcanal, 1941-43 FDR White House, China Mao and Revolution 1948, California dreaming 1952, Georgetown 1954, Army 1961-62, I Have a Dream and Jack and Jackie 1963, Washington riots and mayhem 1965-68, California dreaming 1977, Russia and China romance 2007-12, celebrating a score of characters and events that shaped the American Dream. America, our salvation and our destiny!Great read, beautiful...

Philip Andrews is a brilliant MIT-trained computer engineer, but outside the office, his life is a complete disaster. Clumsy, overweight, badly dressed, and painfully awkward around women, Philip has the intelligence to design revolutionary technology but none of the confidence needed to pursue the life he truly wants.Everything changes when he discovers SECOND CHANCE, an exclusive transformation program led by the ambitious and captivating Kelly Morgan. Under Kell...

This book explains the following subjects:•How societies are organized and how individual personality is shaped by society.•Why no lasting peace is possible in the Middle East or any area of Islamic tribal society.•Why tribal wars and genocide will continue in Black Africa and humanitarian aid and military intervention will have no long term beneficial effect.•Why Russia and China are in irreversible decline and pose no long term threat to the United States....

'Poetry is a collaboration between readers and author. The author writes his impressions and understanding of a given subject but relies on the imagination of the reader to share and explore the implications of his words. Although we are separated by time and distance, a spiritual and emotionalbond is achieved when author and reader share the epiphany of a poem.'

CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865, origin of today's political, economic and social conflicts and the 19th Century national transformation from farm to factory, town to city, pioneer to wage slave Bible to Darwin, honor to profit. The story of this historic pivot set in Colorado 1882. Strong characters in a vortex of political corruption, genocide, drugs (Merck, the start of big pharma, founded in 1827 to produce morphine and later cocaine; Union army purchased 10 million morphine tablets for field hos...

Abington College, very small, antique, once women-only New England college, is venerable and broke, hires a butch Jewish PhD from Brooklyn to salvage what can be in the face of crashing enrollment and desperate need to retain full paid tuition students despite their academic deficiencies. Add to this crisis management, Amanda Hyde (with Jekyll as foreground), English, former au pair girl employed by a New York mafia family, now head of the Abington College Alumni Fund, a picaresque rise fr...