ADF – CARPA
In the novel American Democracy Forever, Charlie Durand creates a new corporation, the Civic Advanced Research Projects Agency, otherwise known as CARPA, in imitation of DARPA, the US Defense Department's Defense ARPA, DARPA. CARPA's mission is to work with the Forum Clubs to identify civic problems, develop technical solutions, prototype them and then market them...
ADF – Education Reform
The chapter of American Democracy Forever on education reform was the result of a discussion about the education industry with my friend Dr. John Wands who had been the chairman of the English department of a private high school for girls. After bemoaning the generally sad state of American education, ADF proposed a bottom-up approach...
ABO – The Novel’s Structure
A Billionaire's Odyssey was not written in a straightforward way, with a predetermined plot and well-defined characters. Instead, it evolved as the story in effect told itself to me as I wrote, and revised. Once I understood that Roland was unhappy because of his divorce from Lillian and the realization that he had harmed many...
Reviews of The Trail To Forever
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Reviews of A Billionaire’s Odyssey
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Reviews of American Democracy Forever
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ADF – History
Lois and I had spent the day visiting tourist attractions in London, UK, and we were tired. After a short nap, I opened my laptop computer to upload the pictures I'd taken that day. Instead, my mind wandered to the dream I'd had at the end of the nap. I had visited scenes of my...
TTTF – History
During the winters when snowmobiling was my passion, I had published The Adventures of a Solo Snowmobiler in a snowmobiling magazine. One evening during a family dinner, I was boasting about now being a published author. “It was a good story,” my wife said, “but why not write one that would have more appeal to women?” “Something...