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Aug.30.2011
Publisher, editor and writer C.C. Bye came to me with an offer I could not resist. He told me, "I want to publish a book that's off-beat, wild, maybe a little dangerous. Give me a short story that fits this description." So I did. "The Barefoot Hero" is my take on what Vietnam did to my generation...
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Dec.16.2009
In keeping with this month's blog theme of "When I Grow Up," I am posting an excerpt from my novel-in-progress, tentatively entitled With Fitzgerald In Limbo:
Slowly, and to my great solace, the world I had known receded before me. As it left my view, I was struck by how...
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Nov.04.2009
The United States is, once again, at the precipice of all-out war, and, if the Pentagon, the Republicans, and the military-industrial monolith have their way, Afghanistan may become another Iraq or Vietnam. One can only hope that President Obama knows his history and will refuse to repeat its...
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Jul.18.2009
Walter Cronkite's death has caused an outpouring of grief and glowing remembrances from people who did not know the real Cronkite and who are ignorant of their own history. Cronkite, called "the most trusted man in America" during his tenure as CBS Evening News anchor, was quite...
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Jul.01.2009
The recent flap over President Obama's appearance at Notre Dame's commencement again exposes the Catholic ultra-right for what it is--hypocritical, self-righteous, and narrow-minded.
Anti-abortionists showed up red-faced, hell-bent and furious in South Bend over the weekend to protest Obama's visit...
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Jun.24.2009
Need A Good Laugh? Here's My Translation of CIA "Spy Master's" Book The other day I ran across a promotion of a reprinted book, that, if it weren't so diabolically evil would be howlingly hilarious. It was Allen Dulles's book "The Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master...
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About Tim
Born and raised in St. Louis, I have been a editor, copywriter, travel writer, proofreader, English teacher, and, now, novelist in my several lifetimes. My work of historical fiction, "Murder Of An American Nazi," was recently published by...
Causes Tim Fleming Supports
The advancement of awareness of authentic American history.