Rainy City Publishing
History is Watching: How Do We Respond to Trump? The inauguration of Donald Trump sparked the biggest protests in our nation's history, and since he took office his actions have continuously outraged a wide spectrum of Americans who worry that he is irrevocably changing our nation and its democratic traditions. He has damaged our country's reputation around the world, made a mockery of civility, and taken the side of dictators against the word of our nation’s security professionals. This book is a roadmap for citizens of all political views to learn how to get involved to protect the rights they value most so our children and grandchildren can enjoy the freedoms we took for granted. We as a society must show our youth that this is not normal, that Trump does not represent our nation’s values, so they don’t grow up to be a generation of cynics. See author John Wright's web page Rainy City Publishing, P.O. Box 82813, Kenmore, WA 98028 info@rainycitypublishing.com |
Lost & Found in Latin America: All About Brazil's World Cup Soccer, the Argentine Pope & MariachiThis book aims to set the record straight. Too many people believe too many things about Latin America that simply are not true. What we think we know about Latin America is painfully wrong: stereotypes, innuendo and half-truths. The 2014 World Cup is shining an unprecedented bright spotlight on Brazil’s marvels and flaws, its beauty and pain, offering a fresh look beyond the clichés to discover Brazil and the rest of Latin America from a new perspective. Lost & Found in Latin America uses the World Cup as a springboard to show people and places, how big events affect everyday lives, discoveries and pratfalls, alluring beauty and haunting ugliness. For more than thirty years, the author reported and traveled in nearly two dozen countries throughout the region. Meeting powerful and humble people, riding Amazon riverboats, climbing Andean glaciers, and getting stuck in remote places, he reveals little-known characteristics and delightful quirks with a sometimes whimsical, always entertaining singular narrative. Lost & Found In Latin America employs colorful vignettes to topple preconceptions and misconceptions. Lost & Found in Latin America is partly a travel memoir of life on the road all over the region, but that is just a starting point. The author describes everyday life in overcrowded, chaotic cities as well as the pastoral countryside and storybook villages. He pulls no punches when it comes to criticizing the forces that hold people back from their full potential: corruption, greed and a lack of interest by the political and economic elites to improve conditions for the masses at the bottom. |