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Ireland, a country dominated for centuries by England, has given
the world many fascinating stories. Herein is one of them about
love and scandal set against the backdrop of volatile Anglo-Irish
politics between 1881 and 1921. It is based on the true story of a
man that British officials called a dangerous man and the people of
Ireland called their uncrowned king. His countrymen idolized him as
he battled to secure home rule for Ireland and fair rents for Irish
tenant farmers. At the same time he fought for Ireland in the
British Parliament, he carried on a secret love affair with the
wife of one of his colleagues in the Irish Party. He loved nothing
more than his country, except this woman, whose love he could not
do without. He lived with her on the sly for nearly ten years
before a scandalous divorce cost him his party leadership and led
to his untimely death. He died without achieving home rule for
Ireland and without suspecting that the woman he so completely
adored would continue his struggle through her son and grandson and
ultimately accomplish what he could not. Their story ends in
triumph, but also in tragedy.
Among the eighteen celebrities I met along my life's journey were
U. S. presidents, secretaries of state, hall of fame athletes,
award winning writers, a popular entertainer, and a great
evangelist, but the focus in this book is on a man who was an
obscure biology professor at a small state university until he
wrote a book detailing his combat experiences in World War II. That
book, WITH THE OLD BREED AT PELELIU AND OKINAWA, has been hailed as
one of the ten greatest war books ever written, and it catapulted
Professor Eugene B. "Sledgehammer" Sledge into national and
international fame. On these pages I recount my personal
experiences with him and the other celebrities with whom I had the
opportunity to interact.
The religious revival meeting has been a vital part of American
culture from the colonial period to the present. Begun by Puritan
preachers in the 17th century, it has persisted through the years
and decades of our history. This book is about the evangelists who
created and perpetuated that revival tradition--from Jonathan
Edwards to Billy Graham and the televangelists of our day. The
focus is on the evangelists and their unique contributions, but at
the same time the book reveals the respective flaws of those
dynamic preachers of the Christian gospel.
The format and contents of this book are quite simple. There are
three parts. Parts I and II consist of letters to the editor by the
compiler--published letters in Part I and selected unpublished ones
in Part II. The third part is an appendix that consists of an
address the author and compiler presented to the Hemlock Society of
San Diego on March 8, 2009. The book's contents will likely be
controversial, since the writer lives in perhaps the Reddest of the
Red states and his views in most instances are among the Bluest of
the Blue--two main exceptions being the author's stand on illegal
immigration and his approval of capital punishment for murderers.
As for the appendix, it offers a strong argument in favor of
"pulling the plug on Grandma," if she wants it pulled. In short,
this book is sure to gladden the hearts of some and raise tempers
to fever pitch in others.
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