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|  | | Basketball and Football
Inside stories and creative analysis of major stories in basketball and football.
In a feast for those who love Basketball and Football, George Thomas Clark offerrs stories, both nonfiction and satirical, about some of the sport's greatest luminaries: Wilt Chamberlain, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, John Wooden, Bill Walsh, O.J. Simpson, and others. Issues of alcoholism, substance abuse, and domestic violence are also examined. This book is a stimuloating read. | |  | | Death in the Ring
Let’s invite many of the greatest boxers, and their contemporaries, to tell their own stories, some true, others tales based on history. Peter Jackson barges into John L. Sullivan’s hotel room to demand a fight. Jim Jeffries regales listeners about his barroom confrontation with Jack Johnson. A bar owner discusses the violent alcoholism of Battling Siki. Jack Dempsey and his detractors hold forth. Sonny Liston stars in three stories. Nelson Mandela boxes Barack Obama. The top 13 heavyweights are identified. Muhammad Ali, Jerry Quarry, Emanuel Steward, Alexis Arguello, Lennox Lewis, and Archie Moore and others also share experiences. They’re frank about their serious business. They know there can always be Death in the Ring.
| |  | | Echoes from Saddam Hussein
These satirical columns, written from 2003 to 2009, allow startlingly candid Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush to explain their need to control the destinies of countries, regions, and, ultimately, the world. Osama bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Karl Rove, and other notables, not all famous, also demand part of the stage.
| |  | | Hitler Here
Adolf Hitler and his intimates and his enemies have bylines and thus the opportunity to reveal what they did and how they felt during an era of unprecedented destruction.
| |  | | In Other Hands
In search of stimulating stories, George Thomas Clark interviewed prostitutes in Madrid, Mexico City, Havana, and Managua and on many boulevards in the United States, and talked to detectives and rode the rough roads of social workers who deal with human trafficking, which is contemporary slavery, and toured the tattered, handmade shelters of the homeless and also interviewed them on the streets and in shelters, and conversed with the poor in the United States, Mexico, Ecuador, and Spain, and sometimes used several lives to create composite stories, and everywhere the author ventured he witnessed struggles of those whose lives are bound In Other Hands.
| |  | | King Donald
In King Donald readers join Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and many others on a raucous ride into a fictional world infused with facts from one of the roughest political races in modern U.S. history.
In em>King Donald/em> readers join Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and many others on a raucous ride into a fictional world infused with facts from one of the roughest political races in modern U.S. history. Rubio rips The Donald who insults Megyn Kelly who counterattacks, and the candidates begin battling around the nation for months, and often reveal what they’re thinking but dare not write. They don’t have to. Author George Thomas Clark writes from their points of view, offering satire, humor, and pungent political a | |  | | Obama on Edge
In these satirical columns written from 2007 to 2012, Barack Obama’s African grandfather espouses pride and aggressive self-defense. His father discusses academic success, family difficulties, and a tragic drinking problem. Young Obama reveals his struggle to control vices and establish racial identity. Then the soaring young politician offers incisive comments about politics, international relations, the media, and other issues. A variety of adversaries counterattack. Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, and Rush Limbaugh claim they are appalled by Obama. John McCain bemoans that the young man lacks an understanding of big league politics. Hillary Clinton doubts his American values. Jeremiah Wright insists Obama always knew what his pastor was preaching and why. Mahmoud Ahmadenijad presumes to lecture the new president. Mitt Romney thinks Obama is a loser. Osama bin Laden, Muammar Gaddafi, and Bashar al-Assad also disapprove. These characters and others have a pulpit. They want Obama on Edge.
| |  | | Paint it Blue
We wonder what they’re thinking, so we ask Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. And you, Picasso, what are you really like? Vincent van Gogh, please tell us more about your agony and inspiration. We must also learn about distinguished women – Paula Modersohn-Becker, Séraphine Louis, Lee Krasner, Diane Arbus, and others. I know they’ll tell us. So will expressionists like Ernst Ludwig Kirschner and Otto Dix. African American artists are certainly forthcoming. Charles White takes us inside his homes, and William H. Johnson invites us into his mind, a stimulating but often unsafe place. And other painters from Europe and the United States – what are they feeling? We find out as they Paint It Blue.
| |  | | Tales of Romance
Stories about many joys and problems in romance.
In compressed language George Thomas Clark presents "Tales of Romance," a compilaion of short stoires and creative columns about relationships between men and women. The four chapters are Dating, Swingers, Issues, and Breakups. The book is comprised of 50 new stories and 12 from the critically acclaimed collection "The Bold Investor."
There are many highlights in the book. A man struggles with online dating. A professional woman looks for men qualified to go out with her. A teacher of adults becomes involved with one of his students. | |  | | The Bold Investor
In this collection of thirty-eight chiseled short stories, George Thomas Clark introduces readers to actors, alcoholics, addicts, writers famous and unknown, a general, a lovelorn farmer, a family besieged by cancer, extraterrestrials threatening the world, a couple time traveling back to a critical battle, a deranged husband chasing his wife, and many more memorable people and events.
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Strike IX
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 This book tells the story of the 1999 Providence College Friars baseball team, the last season that the sport was played at the institution. Baseball was set to be eliminated after that season in order for the school to comply with Title IX regulatio |
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This book tells the story of the 1999 Providence College Friars baseball team, the last season that the sport was played at the institution. Baseball was set to be eliminated after that season in order for the school to comply with Title IX regulatio |
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