This memoir presents author Elvin Bell's recollection of his own history and of his encounters with some of the most well-known movers and shakers of the times. He provides us with astonishing revelations based upon his discussions, meetings, and casual conversations with them. The Event Makers I've Known shares incredible close-ups of everyone from President Richard Nixon and his secretary, Rosemary Woods, to Elvis Presley and screen siren Marilyn Monroe. Bell reveals shocking details of the love affair between Woods and the Interior Secretary and describes the impetuosity of General William Westmoreland, among other stories.

In addition to sharing stories of the famous people he has known, he tells his own personal stories, including the tragic story of his grandmother's death within just a few minutes of his mother's birth in a fire that engulfed the hospital in flames. He talks about the daring rescue of his mother by the young doctor who delivered her-a rescue that cost the doctor his eyesight, his occupation, and eventually his life. He also shares fascinating stories of the hardships, ingenuity, and perseverance that many parents and grandparents endured on their "dust bowl" quest to reach California.

In his tenth book, "The Event Makers I've Known," Bell takes readers on an emotional roller-coaster ride of superstar meltdowns, victories, and heartfelt personal stories.

City councilman and Mayor Pro Tempore Carlos Santiago Dominguez, Jr., from Dos Bayou, Florida, was born fifty-four years ago in Argentina to a United States Ambassador. Now, Dominguez is the largest arms dealer in the terrorist world.

The town of Dos Bayou is surrounded by corruption. Sheriff Homer Jedbow Cogburn has a problem. His chief deputy and nephew, Billy Ray Lewis and fellow deputy Timmy Dee are shadier than two mature oak trees on a hot summer day. When former Air Force pilot Greg Robinson moves from Long Beach, California, to Dos Bayou to start a new job as the City Manager, he has no idea what's waiting for him. He will soon be thrust into the middle of Dominguez's dangerous mission of building an empire larger than Colombia's Cali cocaine cartel, more profitable than all the mafia assets of all the famous crime families combined, and safer than traveling on Air Force One.

Dominguez is a terrorist and drug kingpin with broad geographical reach and political immunity. Robinson has several Desert Storm missions under his belt and a passion for justice. In front of a cave on the northeast side of Chile's Atacama Desert, the fate of both men will be decided.

In "Beyond Cantua Creek," a seasoned political insider with White House experience, shares some fascinating experiences during the Nixon Administration, including the Nixon-Brezhnev White House Summit Conference.

During the Iron Curtain era, Elvin Bell led several intelligence missions into Russia, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, in addition to later serving two special assignments in the White House and completing a tour in the Pentagon during the Ronald Reagan administration. He utilizes his political experience to provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the power structure that existed during the Nixon administration-a foundation that allowed a secretary to appoint her own boyfriend to be secretary of the interior. As he shares the contents of startling conversations and meetings with Soviet President Leonid Ilych Brezhnev, Nixon's secretary Rosemary Woods, Hollywood producer Sam Peckinpah, and scores of other notables, Bell captures the drama that escaped media attention and instead thrived behind the walls of the White House and elsewhere.

"Beyond Cantua Creek" is a compelling compilation that will encourage lively discussions about politics, a presidential administration that will never be forgotten, and the eccentricities of those who once ruled Hollywood.

This memoir presents author Elvin Bell's recollection of his own history and of his encounters with some of the most well-known movers and shakers of the times. He provides us with astonishing revelations based upon his discussions, meetings, and casual conversations with them. The Event Makers I've Known shares incredible close-ups of everyone from President Richard Nixon and his secretary, Rosemary Woods, to Elvis Presley and screen siren Marilyn Monroe. Bell reveals shocking details of the love affair between Woods and the Interior Secretary and describes the impetuosity of General William Westmoreland, among other stories.

In addition to sharing stories of the famous people he has known, he tells his own personal stories, including the tragic story of his grandmother's death within just a few minutes of his mother's birth in a fire that engulfed the hospital in flames. He talks about the daring rescue of his mother by the young doctor who delivered her-a rescue that cost the doctor his eyesight, his occupation, and eventually his life. He also shares fascinating stories of the hardships, ingenuity, and perseverance that many parents and grandparents endured on their "dust bowl" quest to reach California.

In his tenth book, "The Event Makers I've Known," Bell takes readers on an emotional roller-coaster ride of superstar meltdowns, victories, and heartfelt personal stories.

In "Beyond Cantua Creek," a seasoned political insider with White House experience, shares some fascinating experiences during the Nixon Administration, including the Nixon-Brezhnev White House Summit Conference.

During the Iron Curtain era, Elvin Bell led several intelligence missions into Russia, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, in addition to later serving two special assignments in the White House and completing a tour in the Pentagon during the Ronald Reagan administration. He utilizes his political experience to provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the power structure that existed during the Nixon administration-a foundation that allowed a secretary to appoint her own boyfriend to be secretary of the interior. As he shares the contents of startling conversations and meetings with Soviet President Leonid Ilych Brezhnev, Nixon's secretary Rosemary Woods, Hollywood producer Sam Peckinpah, and scores of other notables, Bell captures the drama that escaped media attention and instead thrived behind the walls of the White House and elsewhere.

"Beyond Cantua Creek" is a compelling compilation that will encourage lively discussions about politics, a presidential administration that will never be forgotten, and the eccentricities of those who once ruled Hollywood.

City councilman and Mayor Pro Tempore Carlos Santiago Dominguez, Jr., from Dos Bayou, Florida, was born fifty-four years ago in Argentina to a United States Ambassador. Now, Dominguez is the largest arms dealer in the terrorist world.

The town of Dos Bayou is surrounded by corruption. Sheriff Homer Jedbow Cogburn has a problem. His chief deputy and nephew, Billy Ray Lewis and fellow deputy Timmy Dee are shadier than two mature oak trees on a hot summer day. When former Air Force pilot Greg Robinson moves from Long Beach, California, to Dos Bayou to start a new job as the City Manager, he has no idea what's waiting for him. He will soon be thrust into the middle of Dominguez's dangerous mission of building an empire larger than Colombia's Cali cocaine cartel, more profitable than all the mafia assets of all the famous crime families combined, and safer than traveling on Air Force One.

Dominguez is a terrorist and drug kingpin with broad geographical reach and political immunity. Robinson has several Desert Storm missions under his belt and a passion for justice. In front of a cave on the northeast side of Chile's Atacama Desert, the fate of both men will be decided.