News Soon Is History

NEWS TODAY... ... Could Easily Be ...
Your Book Of ... HISTORY TOMORROW

 

FOR IDEAS FOR YOUR NEXT BOOK OR ARTICLE CHECK: 

 

The Word in the News in June and July, 2007


The Word in the News in August, 2007

 

The Word in the News in September, 2007

 


OR CONSIDER THE QUESTION:

Does your city discard history?
 

"Mayme Clayton Amassed collection of black Americana" 

 

-Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles – “In Los Angeles, a city known for discarding history, Mayme Clayton defied convention by collecting it.

 

“For four decades she prowled garage sales, flea markets, attics, used-book stores, even dumps. From these waste heaps of memory, the soft-spoken librarian rescued thousands of rare and unusual books, movies, sound recordings, photographs, letters and ephemera, much of it dating to the slavery era.

 

“With limited funds but boundless determination, she eventually amassed what experts today regard as a valuable and eclectic collection of black Americana. Its most glorious holding is a signed copy of the first book published by a black person: ex-slave Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral of 1773.

 

“A bit of an eccentric, Ms. Clayton piled the Wheatley book and all her other treasures in the garage behind her humble home. She filled it to the rafters and prayed that the roof wouldn’t leak, all the while maintaining faith that one day she would share its riches with the public in a more suitable setting.

 

“Her dream moved an important step closer to fruition last week, when a group of local officials toured the future home of the Mayme A. Clayton Library, Museum & Cultural Center: a 21,000-square-foot former courthouse in Culver City. It is conceived as a temporary resting spot, but a crucial one, where an estimated 30,000 items can be conserved, cataloged and protected from humidity, insects and other hazards that made Ms. Clayton’s garage an archivist’s nightmare.

 

“Ms. Clayton, who had pancreatic cancer, was too sick to join the tour but heard from her family that it had been a success. Early the next day, Oct. 13, she died at an Inglewood, Calif., hospital. She was 83.

 

…The Clayton family’s long-term goal is to build a world-class museum and research center in Los Angeles with the collection as the centerpiece. But the family’s immediate objective is to raise $50,000 to move the materials out of Ms. Clayton’s garage before the rainy season begins.

 

“The full worth of what Ms. Clayton left behind awaits the assment of scholars and conservation specialists, but those familiar with the collection describe it as an extraordinary achievement by a woman of modest means.”

  

  

Will your Book Help You Become A Jet-Setter?

 

"Jet-setters are today's
Really big spenders"

 

-Suzanne Marta for Dallas Marta for Dallas Morning News, Business news

 “Today’s jet-setters – as in those folks with their own jets – outspend merely affluent consumers by 40-to-1, according to a survey sponsored by Elite Traveler magazine.

 

“The term jet set was first used in the 1950s, when commercial air travel made it possible for the ultra-wealthy to fly around the world by jet for social events, ritzy vacations and business dealings. As air travel became more common and first-class cabins became less exclusive, the term lost its oomph.

 

“The study, conducted by Elite Traveler and Prince & Associates, surveyed 661 private jet owners, who have an average income of $9.2 million and a net worth of $89.3 million.

 

“It studied how their spending habits differ from those of people who make between $75,000 and $200,000. The jet setters spend freely, frequently and extravagantly.”

 

Compare typical annual spending of jet-setters to affluent consumers:

Fine art                              $1.75 million to $1,131

Home improvement                  $542,000  to $6,837

Jewelry                                 $248,000  to $1,152

Watches                               $147,000  to    $534

Hotels and resorts                  $488,000   to $3,680

           SOURCE: Elite Traveler                  

 

 

Historical Resources Press wants to ask:

How much do we as authors spend? Donald Trump wants to make us rich!

 Will your historical novel "create a stir at book fair"?

"Novel about SS man
creates stir at book fair"

FRANKFURT, GERMANY -
        (Bloomberg, Dallas Morning News,   . . .
              following up on the recently concluded Frankfurt Book Fair) -

"The most talked about title at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair (Oct. 4-8, 2006) is a 902-page tome that crams in the Holocaust, incest, lashings of visceral violence and some gay sex, all narrated by an unrepentant former SS officer.

"... Les Bienveillantes turns out to be a first novel by Jonathan Littell, the 39-year-old son of U.S. spy novelist Robert Littel. Though Jonathan Littel is American, the book was written in French and published under the name Jean Petit ('Jon Little').

"Already a best-seller for Gallimard in France, the book has now been sold to German publishers Berlin Verlag for a six-figure sum said to be in the region of 400,000 curos ($504,000). It will be auctioned in the United States and Great Britain later this month.

" 'This book is especially important in Germany because it offers a new standpoint: Here is a man with no regrets about his Nazi past,' says Laurenz Bollinger, the acquiring editor at Berlin Verlag. 'There are very cruel, realistic scenes that might offend people, but it's done in such an intelligent way.' "

Who will write the history behind what happens today?

 

"U.S. Supreme Court Begins New Term"

"Roberts court to show cards this term"

"Justices played it close to vest in Year 1,
but new cases to force hand"
-The New York Times

WASHINGTON -

"If Year 1 was the transition for the new Roberts court, Year 2 is likely to be the test.

... The cases that the court has agreed to decide - 38 so far - offer few off-ramps, requiring instead that the justices proceed to rulings that will define the new court in substance and style.

... Less than six weeks from now, .. the court will hear the Bush administration's defense of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. ... at the end of the day, the Supreme Court will have to declare whether the federal statue is constitutional.

... Two cases on whether public school systems should .. take race into account in maintaining balance in individual schools .. will provide the first clear indication of where the center now lies on questions of race and public policy after the retirement of Justice Sandra Day o'Conner.

... The court also has revised its practice of waiting two or three weeks to post transcripts on the Web site. Beginning on Tuesday, the court will post transcripts on the day of argument at www.supremecourtus.gov."

  

Question: 
Will your next book be NEWS TODAY published as HISTORY TOMORROW? 

What will be the subject of your next book?

Larry King asked Bob Woodward, "What will be the subject of your next book?"

Bob Woodward responded, "I don't know. There's always a book."

Both Larry King and Author Bob Woodward agree:

"There's always a book."

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