THE BLOOD ON MY HANDS by
DR. MIMI SYED, WITH
DR. HELEN HWAIHI
CONSEQUENCES by
DAVID GRANTHAM
THIS I DON’T BELIEVE by ROBERT JENSEN
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MANDELA’S LAST PRISON GUARD by JACK SWART with
ANDREW RUSSELL
On a Sunday morning in December 1988, Jack Swart was pulled from a church service at Victor Verster prison and told he would soon become Nelson Mandela’s personal prison guard. To Swart, a white Afrikaner who had graduated from prison training college with a prize of a dictionary given to him by Prime Minister Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, it felt like a demotion.
Fourteen months later, everything had changed.
WHERE THE MITHUNS ARE by EDITH MIRANTE
In these exhilarating essays, Chatwinesque adventurer Edith Mirante reveals remote Chinland, pandemic Yellowstone, Manzanar, Cahokia, Heizer’s City. Interwoven are themes of Indigenous resistance, land rights, wildness, art in times of conflict, the guns and tanks of Burma. Bison, elk, muskox and mithuns roam.
FATAL SECOND HELEN by JOSH CANNON
The Iliad, Europe’s first book and oldest story of war, is at least 2600 years old. It has been read by Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, and Patton. What does this classic text have to say to our current generation of war fighters and the people that support them?
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In these times of global strife and uncertainty, we need role models we can turn to for inspiration, guidance, and genuine leadership. Now more than ever, we need to take stock and push the default setting button.
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Stephen Russell presents a brutally honest account of his experiences as an infantry soldier during his deployment in Iraq.
WHEN TRIBESMEN CAME CALLING
In When Tribesmen Came Calling, Qaisar narrates his experiences in successfully building American businesses overseas.
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Travis Vanderpool discusses his memoir Touching the Face of God, reflecting on his experience as an American fighter pilot in the Vietnam War and the personal journey that led him there.
Jonestown survivor Eugene Smith, whose collaborator was Blue Ear Books publisher Ethan Casey, hosted by the Princeton Public Library.
In this conversation, J.D. “Jack” Rafferty reflects on his memoir Back to Brooklyn, a firsthand account of his experience as an Army officer and helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War.
David Grantham, author of Consequences: An Intelligence Officer’s War, interviewed on the process of writing and publishing a book.
Jonathan and Beth Evans discuss their careers and lives as batik artists, hosted by the Princeton Public Library.
Former Robben Island prison guard Christo Brand on his lifelong friendship with Nelson Mandela, hosted by the Princeton Public Library.