Affirmation of Red Disinformation

I was sitting alone in one of the pews of our church, in Spruce, Michigan, thumbing through the Bible, pausing to read from Isaiah. I was in a rare, melancholy mood, built up over the weeks by staging several ‘book talks’. I sought my escape in this sanctum, instead of joining most of the members [...]

A visit to American House

During one of my many visits to Moscow I had met and befriended a Michigan State University language professor who, after listening to my story, asked whether he could be of any assistance to me. I asked if possible, would he contact my parents and tell them that I am in good health and in [...]

In defense of missiles

How could anyone praise such a murderous dictator as Nikita Khrushchev?

That was one of several questions leveled at me during one of my book talks in the city of Oscoda, Michigan, where a group of citizens had invited me to speak. Most in that group knew their history; some even had helped write a few [...]

Thoughts

“Will you write the sequel?”

That is the question often asked by readers attending events I have given across the United States.

I had just spent the last five years of my life cooped up in a cardboard box called my work room at Hubbard Lake, Michigan, writing a 1,013 page odyssey of my life behind the [...]