Friday, November 22, 2024

STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF HISTORY -- 1903 MURDER TRIAL OF JOHN TERRELL

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  Last night, with an audience that braved Indiana's first winter snow, I gave a presentation in the same courtroom where my great uncl...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

The Madness of John Terrell: Book Launch

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  My new historical true crime book, The Madness of John Terrell: Revenge and Insanity on Trial in the Heartland , published by Kent State U...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

ONE SHORT SENTENCE IN ONE SPEECH -- AND A REASON TO THINK WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

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 Tim Walz gave his acceptance speech Thursday night. He mentioned that his father died when he was young, but his family survived. “Thank Go...
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Thursday, August 15, 2024

THE JAMES BOND BOOKS -- A POSTSCRIPT: IAN FLEMING: THE COMPLETE MAN

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Nicholas Shakespeare's biography of Ian Fleming is what it claims to be: a complete biography of the man and more. The book covers Flemi...
Saturday, August 3, 2024

THE LAST IAN FLEMING BOND BOOK: OCTOPUSSY AND THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS

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This is it—the final book of my rereading, in order, all of Ian Fleming's James Bond books—Octopussy and the Living Daylights. Actually,...
Wednesday, July 24, 2024

JAMES BOND BOOKS #13 - THE LAST NOVEL: THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN

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The Man With the Golden Gun is Ian Fleming's final novel. It was written in the first months of 1964 when Fleming was suffering from the...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

JAMES BOND BOOK #12: YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE

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You Only Live Twice, the 12th Bond novel and the last of the James Bond Blofeld trilogy, was the last Bond book published during Ian Fleming...