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Below you will find a prologue and first chapter to a book-in-progress titled The Last Professor of the Enlightenment: An American Odyssey. The author would appreciate your feedback. You can e-mail him at dkdemers@comcast.net
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Prologue: Depositions and Berettas
September 30, 2010
Washington State University
Pullman, Washington
"If an annual review accuses a professor of repeatedly canceling classes despite warnings that the level of cancellations was unacceptable, do you think that the faculty member is entitled to find out specifically what classes were canceled?"
"Surely the faculty member knows that," responded the deposed witness, unaware she had misunderstood the intent of the attorney.
"Well, how does the faculty know what particular classes are the subject of the criticism?"
"I would think they should ask," said the vice provost and professor of psychology.
"And if they ask, do you think they should be told by administration?"
"I don’t know. I mean, in this particular case, Dr. Demers is doing the canceling of the classes. I believe he would know. By the way, let’s rephrase that and not say ‘canceling.’ Let’s say ‘not holding the classes.’ He knows that information."
"How do you know he knows that?"
The witness stiffened in her chair. Her face turned red.
"He would certainly know whether he went to a class at a particular time," she shouted, shaking her finger at me. "If he doesn’t, he needs the help of somebody in my profession."
"Well, doctor, what would happen if no one told him that the conduct of online quizzes was unacceptable?"
"He was told repeatedly," she said, shouting even louder now. "His violation of the rule in the academic regulations was considered to be out of line with the acceptable faculty standards, and he was told that repeatedly by many people."
The witness stared at me — the kind of stare that Johnny Miller gave me in third grade right after I beat him in a game of tetherball and just before he slugged me.
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What Critics Are Saying
"... (Bill) Israel's book offers a penetrating view of Rove and his political methods and successes, gleaned from personal and e-mail conversations — Israel describes a dinner party at Rove's Hill Country home — and studying him during that UT-Austin course titled 'Politics and the Press.'” -San Antonio Express-News
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Like many neoconservatives, Rove openly admires Ronald Reagan. However, Israel alleges that Rove’s real guru is the legendary advertiser Tony Schwartz. Perhaps Schwartz’s most famous piece of propaganda was a 1964 TV commercial for Lyndon Johnson’s presidential campaign that featured a little girl plucking petals from a daisy as a mushroom cloud rose above her. ... Over the years Rove has played a part in nearly 80 political campaigns, and in the process, Israel argues, he has perfected the art of media spin and negative campaigning. -The North Coast Journal Weekly of Politics, People & Art
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The Knife Designed for Navy
SEAL Teams Six and Three
(Yes, Team Six took out Osama bin Laden)
The BuckMaster survival knife was conceptualized, designed and built specifically for Navy SEAL Teams Six and Three in the 1980s. This book explores the complete history of the knife and includes interviews with the designers, technicians, the Navy SEAL Team Three commander at that time, and CJ Buck, CEO owner of the company that manufacturered the knive. The 352-page book also includes information about the M9 bayonet and contains more than 100 photographs, about a fourth of which are in color.
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