Swifter than eagles: Bill White and the battle of Athens, 1946 : a nonfiction novel [Hardcover]

Howard Cook (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 343 pages
• Publisher: Friendly City Pub. Co (1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0938212001
• ISBN-13: 978-0938212003
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,018,953 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
With a double major in philosophy and comparative literature Howard E. Cook received his BA from the University Tennessee, and went on to earn an MA in English at the City College of the University of New York City before purusing advanced studies in French language and literature at the Alliance Francaise and Schiller International University in Paris. He has worked for some of the major publishing houses in New York City, plus TIME, LOOK, and Fortune magazines and taught both French and English in private and public schools from K through college.

He is the author of SWIFTER THAN EAGLES, a non-fiction novel telling the story of an insurrection on 1946 in Athens, TN, where he was born and now lives and writes. SWIFTER THAN EAGLES, a non-fiction novel published in a limited edition of 2,500 copies at $15 a copy, was a runaway best seller locally. Out of print but sill in demand, SWIFTER THAN EAGELES has been offered on Amazon and eBay at prices above $600 a copy. The limited first edition of his novel THE WEED & THE WINTER SOLSTICE, with dust jacket art by Jos' Arg'elles, is also selling as a rare book. The author has a few more copies of this limited first edition available on request -- autographed by the author at $500 each. The author has had a hand in the design of the dust covers for SWIFTER THAN EAGLES, THE WEED & THE WINTER SOLSTICE plus BE DONE ON EARTH.

BE DONE ON EARTH is a radical manifesto calling for a complete reformation of Christianity. His present work in progress is a sequel to BE DONE ON EARTH. The title: COGS, The Church of the Second Coming. COGS is an acronym standing for three different terms: 1) Church of the Global Salvation, Church of the Galactic Salvation, Church of the Gay Salvation, three inseparable modes of universal salvation. BE DONE ON EARTH is radical; COGS is a program for a eugenics center world revolution. Both books view the current human situation from a millenniel and cosmic perspective

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3.0 out of 5 stars A nice book about a fascinating incident in American history, June 8, 2011

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This review is from: Swifter than eagles: Bill White and the battle of Athens, 1946 : a nonfiction novel (Hardcover)

An interesting story of Bill White and town veterans after WW2 and their efforts to return the political process to legitimacy after local politicians had corrupted the system. About 1/5 of the book is about the history of the town, the region, the places. Maybe another 3/5 about one of the main instigators, Bill White, his youth, his time in the Marines fighting in the Pacific campaign and his return home. The final 1/5 is about the actual "Battle of Athens". I was disappointed that there were not more pictures. The author very obviously thought VERY highly of himself and his talents. I enjoyed the book despite the author. Bill White led a very interesting life and I do not begrudge the back story and yet I felt slighted by not having more detail about the incident which was the reason for having sought out the book. I do not regret my purchase of the book (which was a signed first edition) and I did enjoy reading it. I first heard about the incident from reading some content from an organization called Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. They have a great deal of content available there related to this incident. It turns out that one of my relatives who now lives in Memphis, TN is related to parties mentioned in the book which made it even more interesting (though I didn't find that out until after I'd bought the book). I took 1 star off for the author's arrogance and 1 star off for the fairly minimal coverage about "The Battle of Athens".