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At a time when our institutions, and our children, are under attack by a tyrannical government that ignores the “consent of the governed” to perpetuate control, this newsletter seeks to spotlight the challenges we face — and offer hope for the future.
I named this blog Made Orwell Fiction Again because George Orwell, a British author, penned a novel called 1984. Written after World War II, his book predicted a world of government censorship — where the Ministry of Truth is responsible for propaganda and for rewriting history, so familiar in our own times.
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I’m a former journalist — for nearly 30 years I covered the White House, Congress and State Department for USA Today and the Los Angeles Times. When journalism went Woke, I went back to school to earn a PhD in history. As a historian, I wrote two books on women’s fight to win the vote. Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote chronicled the role of uber wealthy women of the Gilded class and their impact on the fight for suffrage. And Yet They Persisted analyzes the long history of this movement, from 1776 to 1965. One thing I uncovered is that in the early years the lead reformers were Republicans and abolitionists. Imagine.
My latest book, The Concert, is based on a true story of what happened during World War II when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union and subjected the city of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) to a siege of 872 days in which the city's three million residents were robbed of food, electricity, heat and dignity. Amid this inhumane treatment, a group of musicians banded together, many starving, to perform a concert that lifted the city’s morale. The novel is told through the eyes of Olga Berggolts, a poet who meets often with her circle of female artists, dancers and writers to chronicle the war. and its lessons. Their conversations about the twin horrors of fascism and communism thread the book with a political commentary relevant in our own times.
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