Greeley & Stone, Publishers

Independent Social Issues Journalism
       SHARDS OF WAR
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In 1941, two teen siblings flee their home on foot in Dubno, Poland, now Ukraine, just ahead of the advancing Germans. Dr. Michael Kesler tells the true, gripping story of Anti-Semitism and of his and his sister's travels and life in the Soviet Union, providing chilling accounts of earth-shaking events of World War II. 

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TWELVE THE KING
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Twelve The King is Michael Blake's  memoir that reads like a love poem not only to a particular animal, but to all wild things, to what is wild in us. This story is equal parts an unsentimental recounting of one person's relationship to an untamable animal and a cautionary tale as to what we stand to lose if we take the existence of these magnificent symbols of North American independence and resourcefulness for granted. Michael understood that "Twelve" was not his to own or subdue, and took pride in the special gift of being the wild stallion's custodian.

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  UNACCEPTABLE

“[A]n informative and critical analysis of the inefficiency and ineptitude of the American government’s response to the natural disaster and consequent widespread tragedy of hurricane Katrina.  . . .Unacceptable guides readers through the many contributing factors which resulted in the Bush administration’s dysfunctional political policies, such as downgrading FEMA while pushing new resources into the anti-terrorism campaigns and the war in Iraq. To be given high praise for its candor, Unacceptable is very strongly recommended reading for anyone interested in contemporary politics and current events for its outstanding and precise study of the federal government’s poor performance and indecisive action for one of the worst natural disaster in American history." –Midwest Book Review


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MAD LAUGHTER

If you like great writing about sex, drugs and rock and roll by a hard-hitting journalist who covered everything from the Beach Boys to the vice squad, you will love Mad Laughter, Fragments of a Life in Progress. Mad Laughter contains all of Jules Siegle's autobiographical material. Some it appeared in Playboy, New American Review and other magazines to generally outrageous praise. More than half the text has never appeared in print -- often because it was too hot to publish. Mad Laughter is his personal history of the 20th Century. Illustrated with exquisite photographs, some of them nude, and selections from his calligraphic journals, the book careens through the rotting landscape of American life, as he became the kind of person he says his parents would have called a degenerate, but in whispers. Isn't that what people want to read about? After everything that has happened, what else is left but mad laughter, anyway?


CONFESSIONS OF A RAVING, UNCONFINED NUT: Misadventures in the Counterculture