Lessons from the recent past
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- January
- 13
A Palisades-based History Publishing Company announces a new publication, “Homeland Insecurity: How Washington Politicians Have Made America Less Safe.” They say they will have lots of copies available to sell during this political transition and it is quite an appropriate book to read this week.
Don Bracken of Palisades, who runs History Publishing, notes in his email to us that the book offers hope for change in America.
“With hopes as high as a cloudless sky, millions of Americans will pour through the gates of Washington D.C. to celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the United States and to embrace the change that the president-elect will bring to America,” reads the publicity material. The publisher urges the public and newly-elected and appointed officials to read up on some current history to not make similar mistakes.
“Homeland Insecurity” is written by Terry Turchie and Dr. Kathleen Puckett, two former FBI officials. Turchie, a former Deputy Assistant Director of the Counter-terrorism Division of the FBI, was also Senior Counter-Intelligence Officer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He was with the FBI Unit Director who led the final pursuit of Ted Kaczynski, the unabomber, and was an Assistant Deputy Director. Puckett worked for the FBI for 23 years and was a founder of the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Program. She is now at University of California at San Francico. They also co-authored “Hunting the American Terrorist,” an account of the pursuit of Ted Kaczynski, which is also from History Publishing.
Read more about History Publishing and the authors at their own Web site.
The $24.95 book is available at Barnes and Noble and other book retailers, including online at History Publishing’s Web site.
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on Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 at 4:51 pm by Barbara Nackman.
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