Awhile back I ran a post jumping off of David Brinkley’s book of reminiscences, Brinkley’s Beat. As I explained then, and I’ll explain now, David Brinkley was once one of the most famous men on television, co-anchor of the “Huntley-Brinkley Report,” the highest ranked news show on TV during the glory days of network television….
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Why Do the Heathen Rage, Part XLVIII
One of the many projects that I have—lumbering towards completion like weary mammoths journeying across the darkened Arctic landscape of my mind—is a political novel set in the near present-day, with the lives of its characters coming to a halt shortly before the 2008 election. To pick up a little background, I’ve been reading, among…