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April 24, 2011
The Blog Tour for The King Whisperers
has finished its first week. You can check out the reviews at:
Muse Shack
My Writer's Cramp
Writer, I Think
Inspired Quill
The Trust Blog
Thanks to all for the reviews and the comments.
April 19, 2011
April 11, 2011
In honor of the The Kennedys TV miniseries
here is a book excerpt from The King Whisperers, featuring the architect of much of the Kennedy campaign magic, Larry O'Brien. Some of the ideas and tactics the movie attributes to RFK as campaign manager were actually O'Brien's.
Camelot's Merlin: Larry O'Brien
Major changes in the field of political campaigns and consulting occurred in the 1950s and 1960s, some related to the political career of John F. Kennedy. One of the features of the post–World War II American political system was the...
March 30, 2011
Excerpt from The King Whisperers
From the chapter Empire Builders: Ibrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier to Suleiman the Magnificent.
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The Most Beautiful Man in the Empire
Pargali Ibrahim Pasha was a visionary and powerful grand vizier (chief minister) to the sultan considered to be the greatest ruler of the Ottoman Empire, Suleiman the Magnificent. A natural leader who exerted great influence over the sultan, Ibrahim Pasha is celebrated as one of the engineers of the empire and the most powerful of the imperial...
March 21, 2011
Book excerpt from The King Whisperers
From the chapter "The Fixers"
The Architect, Karl Rove:
#amwriting #newbooks #politics #history #news
Rove's experience in American politics reaches back much further than many people realize. He rose to national prominence and became a household name with the presidency of George W. Bush, but has been active in national political campaigns since the early 1970s.
Like many other well-known Republican Party activists, Rove came up in the ranks of the College Republicans national...
March 13, 2011
I'm being Twitterviewed Monday at 4pm est.
The topic is my new book The King Whisperers, and the host is the great Twitterviewer Emlyn Chand of Novel Publicity.com. On Twitter, just go to #emlyn at 4pm. Thanks for everyone's encouraging words.
January 31, 2011
As promised, here is the intro to my new book due out in March:
The King Whisperers: Power Behind the Throne from Rasputin to Rove.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
- Stephen Vincent Benet
In the summer and fall of 1503, Niccolo Machiavelli represented his beloved Florence in negotiations with one of the most ambitious and dangerous men in Europe at the time, Cesare Borgia, the son of the Pope.
Machiavelli was trying to determine whether it was in the interest of the Florentine republic to enter into an alliance with Borgia, ...
January 3, 2011
Obama's Numbers Up/We've Seen this Movie Before
His approval rating has risen to 50 percent, with only a mention of forthcoming GOP-led investigations and a possible House vote to repeal Health Care changes. If Republicans push the investigation thing too far, just watch how fast Obama's ratings numbers go up.
December 8, 2010
Obama Following Bill Clinton's Footsteps?
The tax cut deal with Republicans may be evidence that Barack Obama is trying to shift to the political center and appear more moderate, just as Bill Clinton did in 1995-96, in preparation for his 2012 reelection run. After the elections a few weeks ago, there was some question which playbook he would follow: the Clinton model of tacking back to the center, or a more combative, leftward focus of getting "good policy" done while he can. I think we now know the answer. The only question is, ...
November 29, 2010
McCain Compares Palin to Reagan, Jesus Christ, and Mahatma Ghandi
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire reports that McCain compared her favorably to Reagan. Okay, I added the other two just for fun. Boy, that John McCain has really good judgment, doesn't he?
