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Month: December 2021

Do racism and “white privilege” dominate America?

December 13, 2021 by Ronald E. Yates

Today, I am turning my blog over to Steven Baldwin, a former California State legislator and executive director of the Council for National Policy in Washington. Steve, who happens to be my cousin, makes some significant and indispensable points about race and America’s unrelenting myth of “white privilege.” I hope …

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A Short Conversation with Bob Dole

December 11, 2021 by Ronald E. Yates

It was 1967 and I had recently enrolled at the University of Kansas in Lawrence on the G.I. Bill after serving almost four years in the U.S. Army Security Agency. At the time I was working at the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper in the composing room. My job was to “kill” …

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Japan’s last war leader tells of lifelong regret: “Japan should never have attacked Pearl Harbor”

December 10, 2021 by Ronald E. Yates

Three days ago the U.S. remembered the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. I was going through my files a couple of days later and ran across this story that I wrote in 1989 when I was the Chicago Tribune’s Tokyo Bureau Chief and Chief Asia Correspondent.  …

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My Interview re Historical Fiction on the New Books Network

December 8, 2021 by Ronald E. Yates

The link below will take you to a podcast/radio interview I did a while back with C. P. Lesley of the New Books Network about writing historical fiction. Ms. Lesley is herself the author of six historical fiction novels set in 16th Century Russia during the reign of Ivan the …

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Misremembering Pearl Harbor

December 7, 2021 by Ronald E. Yates

Today is the 80th anniversary of Imperial Japan’s attack on America’s 7th Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. I lived in Japan and covered that nation for 10 years as the Chicago Tribune’s Chief Far Eastern Correspondent and Tokyo Bureau Chief. Naturally, Pearl Harbor was never far from the cusp of …

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More Predictions From the Past: “Oranges will grow in Philadelphia”

December 6, 2021 by Ronald E. Yates

In my continuing examination of the way people of the past predicted the future, here is yet another look at some interesting forecasts from long ago. My previous post on predictions from the past was posted earlier this week. Why am I blogging about this? Because, as an author of …

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Famously Wrong Predictions From the Past

December 4, 2021 by Ronald E. Yates

Predicting the future can be a daunting, if not a sometimes embarrassing occupation. I have already posted on this topic a few times because as a writer of historical fiction I think it adds something when characters look ahead and wonder what the world will be like in one hundred …

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