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Book Excerpt: With the Bark Off by Neal Spelce and Thomas Zigal

November 23, 2021 by Neal Spelce and Thomas Zigal

In all the years I was working at KTBC as a reporter and then as news director—making decisions about what stories to air and what not to air—never once did LBJ or the Johnson family give orders to cover this and not that.

A photo of Alan Friedman smiling next to a simple blue book cover for Shakespeare's Returning Warriors - and Ours.

Book Excerpt: Shakespeare’s Returning Warriors – and Ours by Alan Warren Friedman

November 12, 2021 by Alan Warren Friedman

Most Shakespearean tragedies begin with their titular protagonists returning, immediately or imminently, from highly successful martial combat.

The book cover reads From Prophets of Doom to Chroniclers of Gloom. The author is M.R. Ghanoonparvar. The cover features the images of seven journalists, six men and one woman. Next to the book cover is a black and white photo of the author, who has a mustache and glasses.

Book Excerpt: From Prophets of Doom to Chroniclers of Gloom by M.R. Ghanoonparvar

November 4, 2021 by M.R. Ghanoonparvar

Much of the post-revolution fiction of Iranian authors presents the reader with often confused and desperate characters who live in an unstable world and express, as it were, a sense of urgency and focus on the present rather than the future. 

Book Excerpt: Armies of Arabia by Zoltan Barany

October 26, 2021 by Zoltan Barany

A major legacy of the conflict is Arabia’s increased dependence on US weapons, training, and power projection capabilities, and this reliance has only increased in the past three decades.

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