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Lyle S. Shelmidine
Sam Volpentest
RAISING CAIN BOOK SOLD OUT. But wait, it will still be available!
I am pleased to announce that my first book, Raising Cain: The Life and Politics of Senator Harry P. Cain, has sold out of its first printing. I am going to continue to make the book available using Print On Demand. The book will be available through Amazon, your favorite bookseller, or through my website: www.cms-author.com.
The picture is of Cain speaking on the floor of the U.S. Senate the day in 1950 when he introduced competing resolutions to use atomic weapons against Chinese bases in Manchuria and another to withdraw our military forces in the Pacific.
PRESIDENTS IN CRISIS!
Presidential historian Michael Beschloss uses original letters, diaries, declassified documents, and interviews to bring us into the room and into the minds of a succession of American presidents – Monroe, Polk, Lincoln, McKinley, Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman and Johnson who led the nation into war. He says that the book was a daunting task, taking him many years and similar in terms of work and research to writing a new history or each man. Did they learn from or ignore the lessons of their predecessors? The answer is that each situation and each man was different, with some benefitting and some being broken by the experience. Beschloss is a first-rate historian and storyteller and this book is a fascinating description of the human foibles and leadership of our leaders in times of crisis.
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From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America’s wartime chief executives Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, m...Celebrated local author C Mark Smith was our Richland Rotarian of the Week for January 15. C. Mark is known for writing well-researched biographies and non-fiction books. He researched and wrote a detailed history of Tri-Cities combined charitable Rotary "Duck Race". A portion of that article appeared as an interview in the internationally distributed Rotarian magazine this month!Celebrated local author C Mark Smith was our Richland Rotarian of the Week for January 15. C. Mark is known for writing well-researched biographies and non-fiction books. He researched and wrote a detailed history of Tri-Cities combined charitable Rotary "Duck Race". A portion of that article appeared as an interview in the internationally distributed Rotarian magazine this month!
THE OTHER WOMAN (and a current threat)
Every so often I need a break from history and biography. When that happens, like it has for the past two days, I most enjoy curling up with a Daniel Silva intelligence thriller I can't put down. In this case, it was his latest called The Other Woman. As it turns out, there's plenty of history and biography in the book because the other woman is the fictional daughter of Kim Philby, the MI6 Head of Station in Washington DC who defected to the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. He was one of the spies recruited at Cambridge in the 1930s. And now, his daughter has the same job as her father as well as his politics.
Philby has a special connection to me. My professor of Middle East history at UPS had been a spy in Turkey during the war working for the US when Philby was there working for two masters. He used to talk about Philby and his famous father, a noted Arabist who converted to Islam.
Silva is a master story teller, but he is also a keen observer of current events. Suggesting that there are great similarities between Stalin and Putin. Both revivalist and paranoid, they use "active measures" against the west that range from open violence to "disinformation campaigns." "Probe with bayonets," Lenin advised."If you encounter mush, proceed. If you encounter steel withdraw." Putin and other strongmen of his ilk believe in the corporate state - fascism
THE OTHR by another name. Silva writes, Putin is probing with bayonets. Only steel will stop him."
The Other Woman: A Novel (Gabriel Allon)
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#1 New York Times Bestseller#1 USA Today Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerA Kirkus Best Book of 2018A Real Book Spy Best Thriller of 2018From Daniel Silva, the #1 New York Times–bestsellin...This is a unique website which will require a more modern browser to work!
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