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Alumni Fund
$3.99 – $11.99Abington 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 from au pair to stripper at the Kit Kat Club in Manhattan and by means of forged documentation to eligibility for her current position, aided in her financial and professional success by a hit man and a plague of fatal accidents among the alumni. All part of the larcenous tale you are about to read if you are lucky enough to get a copy of this book.
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Freedom Vs. Equality: The Structure and Morphology of Contemporary World Societies
$3.99 – $18.99This 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 benefi cial effect.
•Why Russia and China are in irreversible decline and pose no long term threat to the United States.
•How African and Islamic tribal societies are organized and why Islam is incompatible with Western civil society.
•Why the United States is the most powerful nation in world history and how disastrous domestic and foreign policies threaten our long term predominance.
•Why the United States has “culture wars” and the historical contradictions that make us a great nation in constant social and political conflict. -
Poems
$8.99‘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 emotional
bond is achieved when author and reader share the epiphany of a poem.’
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The Last Western
$9.99 – $16.99CIVIL 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 hospitals and more than 200,000 addicts returned home after the war), gun violence (endemic after 650,000 fratricide in the Civil War), abortion, homosexuality and abiding hope. Not to be missed!
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: An American Story
$3.99 – $28.99A 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, beautifully written. I particularly liked the chapters on Russia and China. So many events and characters, some famous all fascinating. George B.