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Release: 173 words COVENANT BETRAYED A THREE VOLUME HISTORICAL TRILOGY When does Presidential Power corrupts? "Covenant Betrayed" is a historical fiction trilogy. A passionate simple love story that spans the chaotic times of the sixties: including the civil rights era, morphing into the war and antiwar debate and political radicalism on both the right and left, which divided this country similar to that of the civil war. www.authorhouse.com → Book → Mark Dahl, paperback $13.25 to 14.50 / vol. Or call 888.280.7715 Also available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble Ebook on CD R $12 for all three volumes + $6 shipping and handling Order through www.covenantbetrayed.com with PayPal for check, credit, debit card Ecommentary by Chapters and Ereadings CD R $10 +$6 shipping and handling Ecommentary/Ereadings, Audio Book Pending, check web site below. Additional resources( Blog and Essays): www.covenantbetrayed.com , ISBN Soft Cover Vol. 1, 1420805657 Vol. 2, 1420805681, Vol. 3, 1420805703 ISBN Hard Cover Vol. 1, 1420805649 Vol. 2, 1420805673, Vol. 3 142080569X
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the Author: Mark Dahl, raised in Manhattan, Kansas has lived in the multiple places, now resides in Columbia MO. Education: BA and MA in Microbiology, Medical degree from George Washington University. Two kids, Scott and Jane. Other works, video movie, novels and plays. mdalh7@hotmail.com
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Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Iraq = Vietnam redux? Similarities? Differences? When does Presidential Power corrupts? "Covenant Betrayed" is a historical fiction trilogy. A passionate simple love story that spans the chaotic times of the sixties: including the civil rights era, morphing into the war and antiwar debate and political radicalism on both the right and left, which divided this country similar to that of the civil war. History is difficult to evaluate in the presence. Historical fiction emphasizes the angst of uncertainty; the terror of fears; the passion, the ecstasy; the confusion, the despairs of the epoch. With historical fiction, history comes alive. It gives one a sense of being there, experiencing and understanding the ambiguity of those times. In addition, hopefully, learning the lessons of histories so that we do not repeat ourselves. www.authorhouse.com → Book → Mark Dahl, paperback $13.25 to 14.50 / vol. Or call 888.280.7715 Also available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble Ebook on CD R $12 for all three volumes + $6 shipping and handling Order through www.covenantbetrayed.com with PayPal for check, credit, debit card Ecommentary by Chapters and Ereadings CD R $10 +$6 shipping and handling Ecommentary/Ereadings, Audio Book Pending, check web site below. Additional resources( Blog and Essays): www.covenantbetrayed.com , ISBN Soft Cover Vol. 1, 1420805657 Vol. 2, 1420805681, Vol. 3, 1420805703 ISBN Hard Cover Vol. 1, 1420805649 Vol. 2, 1420805673, Vol. 3 142080569X About the Author: Mark Dahl, raised in Manhattan, Kansas He lived in the multiple places in the Midwest, New England, Washington DC area, Northern/Central and Southern CA, and now resides in Columbia MO. Education includes a BA and MA in Microbiology, Medical degree from George Washington University, and Medical Residency at UCLA, and Fellowship at Indiana University in Microbiology. Married to Liz for 37 years. Two kids, Scott and Jane. Interests include reading history, political science, writing, and video production. Currently editing an Independent Video film called “Harvest Moon” a story about methamphetamine addictions in the rave crowd of the late nineties in the Kansas -30- _________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Mark Dahl 573.446.0808 November 11, 2005 Fax 573.446.2219 Long
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Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Iraq = Vietnam redux? Similarities? differences? When does Presidential Power corrupts? "Covenant Betrayed" is a historical fiction trilogy. A passionate simple love story that spans the chaotic times of the sixties: including the civil rights era, morphing into the war and antiwar debate and political radicalism, both the right and left, which divided this country similar to that of the civil war. History is difficult to evaluate in the presence. Historical fiction emphasizes the angst of uncertainty; the terror of fears; the passion, the ecstasy; the confusion, the despairs of the epoch. With historical fiction, history comes alive, gives one a sense of being there, experiencing and understanding the ambiguity of those times. In addition, hopefully, learning the lessons of histories so that we do not repeat ourselves. One cannot understand the Sixties without understanding the Fifties. The Fifties were the first time the American youth had excess freedom. Before the 50’s they worked on the family farm; dusk till dawn, slaved in the sweat shops, 12 hours a day, six days a week; starved in the depression; and fought not knowing it they would be alive the next day in World War II and the Korean War. Than, suddenly, came the fifties. First, there were the beatniks, lead by their spiritual leader Williams Burroughs, than the “bad boys of rock and roll Elvis, Johnny Cochran, and Jerry Lee Lewis prevailed. This excess freedom, led to freedom to think, freedom to question, freedom to challenge, a spiritual renaissance In the sixties, the peaceful non-violent Civil Rights Movement, progressed to Black Power and the Black Panthers. The Civil Rights Movement was followed by the creeping involvement in Vietnam, first with military advisors, than massive troop deployments to Vietnam resulting in death, violence, destruction, and … then disillusion. And complementing the war, initially, the educational teach-ins led to massive antiwar demonstrations, to the Weathermen busting windows on Michigan Ave and planting bombs in the Capital. This all digressed to the “second civil war” which recently resurfaced with the Iraq War. I'm now afraid, we are progressing to the “third civil war”. Throughout the three books, we follow the characters lives from romantic innocence to reality to expressionism. Some fighting in Vietnam, some protesting the war, some marching for civil rights, friendships destroyed and than repaired. Some lives lost, some destroyed, some survived, but all caught up in the hubris characterized by a gross failure of governmental leadership. Those betrayed the most have their names on a black granite wall in Washington DC. I wrote Covenant Betrayed as an historical fiction novel of the sixties. Some facts in the novel may be wrong as we know them today, but were based on the information that was available in the conventional media at that time. The reason for this was to give the reader a sense of the problems, as they happened, not with the history of looking back. Separating the real from the imagined during the present is much more difficult but provides insight into these confusing times. Thus, I wrote the books with this ambiguity of those times in mind. Hopefully, we can learn from this exercise. One glaring example of fiction was the pretense of going to war in Vietnam.--- The attacks on the destroyers in the Gulf of Tompkin. Today, we know that they did not exist. Sadly, the results was an eight year war that left the United States in a quagmire from which it could not escape, resulting in the deaths of 58,000 Americans and two million Vietnamese. Today we face the same issues. We are in a similar quagmire. We're trapped in a war which we cannot win, and that continually escalates in violence. If we stay, more will die. If we leave, more will die. To date, over 100,000 Iraqis have died, most being non-combatants. Like Vietnam, the United States declared war on a country that was never a threat to us. Not one Iraqi citizen was a member of the terrorist group that attacked the WTC. Saddam, no matter how bad he was, never threatened our security, The President co-opted Congressional powers by using the pretenses of lies to extend presidential powers to conduct unilaterally a peremptory attack on a country without the declaration of war, a violation of the Constitution. Therefore, I decided to publish Covenant Betrayed, a trilogy I wrote from 1979 to 1985. The questions I asked: was there available information at the beginnings of the Vietnam War to make a rational decision that going to war would be tragic? In an attempt to answer that question, I research all the current media of the times. The answer is a definite yes. Like Vietnam, today Iraq, is Vietnam Redux. Yes, one can argue that there are many differences… but fundamentally, the primary similarities are present. Our National Hubris prevents us from saying we made a terrible mistake. About the Author: Mark Dahl, raised in Manhattan, Kansas, a sleepy university town of 14,000. Attended Kansas State University, but left Kansas in 1963, vowing never to return. But returned twenty five years later to live in Topeka.. He lived in the multiple places in the north and central Midwest; Vermont and New Haven, CT in New England; Washington DC area, San Francisco-Berkeley bay area, Santa Monica, Claremont, and the Central valley in California; and now resides in Columbia MO. Education includes a BA and MA in Microbiology, Medical degree from George Washington University, and Medical Residency at UCLA, and Fellowship at Indiana University in Microbiology. Married to Liz for 37 years. Two kids, Scott and Jane. Interests include reading history, political science, writing, and video production. Currently editing an Independent video film called “Harvest Moon” a story about methamphetamine addictions in the rave crowd of the late nineties in the Kansas City. www.authorhouse.com → Book → Mark Dahl, paperback $13.25 to 14.50 / vol. Or call 888.280.7715 Also available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble Ebook on CD R $12 for all three volumes + $6 shipping and handling Order through www.covenantbetrayed.com with PayPal for check, credit, debit Ecommentary by Chapters and Ereadings CD R $10 +$6 shipping and handling Ecommentary/Ereadings, Audio Book Pending, check web site below. ISBN Soft Cover Vol. 1, 1420805657 Vol. 2, 1420805681, Vol. 3, 1420805703 ISBN Hard Cover Vol. 1, 1420805649 Vol. 2, 1420805673, Vol. 3 142080569X
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