Down Wind and Out of Sight abounds with mysterious questions. How did an emotionally-damaged group of social misfits come to live secretly – and illegally – on a sweeping northern Chesapeake Bay estate? Who is this Aboriginal financial wizard holding the strange band together – and what deceptions is he determined to keep alive? Who is responsible for the spiraling series of bizarre catastrophes – and how many people are going to die? How long can this ‘found family’ remain “down wind and out of sight” as federal Investigators close in? This unique novel is both a riveting thriller and a compassionate exploration of how much people reveal when they’re doing their best to hide. Full of wry wit, compelling characters and unexpected twists, the adventures of the “Hole in the Wall Gang” race to a shocking climax, catching you up in a powerful story you won’t forget.
This book traces the life of the author who was born in a rural obscured Alabama village call Nymph, where abject poverty was met head on with unrelenting love. One of 12 children, this author waded through systemic racism and seemingly insurmountable odds to become the third highest ranking official in the regional city of Mobile, AL. In his book, Richardson set out to prove once and for all that there is but one race of people on the face of the earth, the human race; and that skin or any other color has absolutely no value in itself. He more than proved that point. As an elected official, Richardson offered valuable advice to those seeking to be elected as well as for those already holding office. As world traveler, Richardson shares that experience with his readers as well as the art of negotiating and trading in a global marketplace. Readers can relive life in a rural community and gain experience from a village that survived slavery and it's aftermath and produced citizens that excelled to worldwide pro potion. The author credits his family for providing the inspiration he needed to turn every obstacle, rock or boulder into stepping stones toward a brighter future, for himself and all others. He also credits many others who's ethnicity was different from his, with aiding he and his family in their struggle to survive the pains of poverty. Through it all, Richardson makes it clear that he holds absolutely no animosity toward anyone, past or present; that life, with all of it's twists and turns, left him with no permanent scars, only love for every living human being. His title was intended to show how, with the help of God, his family and many others, he was able to leave Nymph, settle in Mobile, AL, and represent that city around the world. He makes the point that God has placed in each of us the ability to rise above any present or future circumstance. You will not read his book and not be affected.
Nothing in their life stories resembles yours, except their humanity and pathos. A carnival barker's worst nightmare brought to life: a compendium of freaks, physically and psychically scarred, seeking redemption and attention. Chloe Red and Kay Sutter, age and youth, guile and beguiling. H. Charles Branhoover and H. James Branhoover, each with a hand holding that of Death. Bernrd Red, firstborn son without a legacy, self-styled cooler, preppy hoodlum. Zachary R., failed chosen one, father and husband, benevolently misguided by an angel of sorts. From the rivers of Pittsburgh to the streets of New Orleans, cut-rate rooms in a Hollywood youth hostel and ashes floating on the depths of a bottomless lake, these American Strays enter and exit one another's lives, bringing justice and misery, humor and mercy, asking more questions than providing answers.
The book, “The End of Racism In America,” traces the monster called racism, from the day “Junior” was born, in 1939, and documents thereafter, the horrendous effort put forth, for the greater part of “Junior’s” life, to assure him a place in the basement of the greatest nation on the face of the earth: America. When “Junior” moved from his native Alabama rural community called Nymph, where he was one of twelve children who lived in abject poverty, he located to the big city of Mobile, AL. He soon discovered he was doomed to second class citizenship, simply based on his back skin. In fact, laws guaranteed his inability to compete with whites in any segment of society. This book will show that “Junior” overcame every obstacle intended to assure him a lifetime of second-class citizenship, and rose up to become a mighty leader, the third highest ranking elected official of the City of Mobile. You will see that “Junior” was haunted most of his life over America’s false notion that he was born innately inferior to others, simply based on his black skin. You will see that “Junior” graduated from many schools of higher learning, including the University of South Alabama; while on a mission to find evidence prove to the world he was equal to any human on planet earth. After traveling the world over, becoming an avid student of the Bible, and majored in history, he is, in his book, offering to America, a foolproof formula, to end the very notion of racism in America, in his lifetime. He is 84.
In The Corruption of Zachary R., book one in his American Strays series, Richardson tells the story of Zachary R.'s descent into psychosis and homelessness. In Trust Fund Baby, book two in the series, a homeless man is the last thing H. James "Jimmy" Branhoover ever sees. Who led Jimmy, a young man and the heir to his father's fortune, to such mysterious and tragic circumstances? Richardson goes back in time to Jimmy's early years, examining his relationships with his parents (the well-to-do and good-for-nothing banker H. Charles Branhoover and the former roughhouse prostitute Chloe Red); his childhood cohorts, the otherworldly Kay Sunday and the easygoing Innocent the enigmatic Vander Stevenson; homeless man Charles Larson; and his estranged brother, Bernrd Red. Tragic, "[a]nd yet, so peculiar, charming, and hilariously funny," the American Strays will challenge and delight readers.
Drawing on the works of Shakespeare and American screenwriter Joss Whedon, this study in narrative ethics contends that Whedon is the Shakespeare of our time. The Bard wrote before the influence of the modern moral philosophers, while Whedon is writing in the postmodern period. It is argued that Whedon's work is more in harmony with the early modern values of Shakespeare than with modern ethics, which trace their origin to 17th and 18th century moral philosophy. This study includes a detailed discussion of representative works of Shakespeare and Whedon, showing how they can and should be read as forms of narrative ethics.
This study examines the major works of contemporary American television and film screenwriter Joss Whedon. The authors argue that these works are part of an existentialist tradition that stretches back from the French atheistic existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, through the Danish Christian existentialist Soren Kierkegaard, to the Russian novelist and existentialist Fyodor Dostoevsky. Whedon and Dostoevsky, for example, seem preoccupied with the problem of evil and human freedom. Both argue that in each and every one of us "a demon lies hidden." Whedon personifies these demons and has them wandering about and causing havoc. Dostoevsky treats the subject only slightly more seriously. Chapters cover such topics as Russian existentialism and vampire slayage; moral choices; ethics; Faith and bad faith; constructing reality through existential choice; some limitations of science and technology; love and self-sacrifice; love, witchcraft, and vengeance; soul mates and moral responsibility; love and moral choice; forms of freedom; and Whedon as moral philosopher.
The Genesis And Exodus Of Now is an eye witness true account of the struggle of blacks in Mobile, AL to be free, from 1968 to 1974. This freedom movement was called Neighborhood Organized Workers (NOW) and was led by two brave fearless leaders, Noble C. Beasley and James H. Finley. The author of this book, Fredrick Douglas Richardson, Jr. was apart of NOW and was himself caught up in the eye of the vicious storm of opposition against extending freedom to Blacks in Mobile, AL at all cost. The Mobile story is really an American story. It is a story of the powerless confronting the bound and determined powerful, head on, in their nonviolent demand for freedom and opportunity. Might was used to deny rights. Beasley and Finley were determined, in the face of insurmountable opposition, to lead the people of color, in Mobile, AL, to freedom. This book will show that the strategies used by NOW preempted and Civil Rights organization in America. Richardson describes the turn of events daily in this book, and named those who joined those on the side of injustice. Like Nelson Mandela, Beasley eventually was arrested by the Feds on a false drug conspiracy charge, sentenced to life, without parole, served a total of 28 years as a political prisoner, but thank God he is free today. This book details Beasley's life and that of Dr. James Finley. Herein is a literary snapshot of an American city fighting to preserve the past, while it's minority citizens refused to except nothing less than freedom. The Mobile, AL story is an attest to the progress made in America regarding inclusion. However, the Mobile story never made the front pages of national news papers because the freedom movement in Mobile started after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This book will document this movement and prove the freedom struggle in Mobile was no less intense. This book should be a required reading for every student in middle school and above and indeed every adult. There are few published eyewitness accounts to the actual Civil Rights struggle. This book is one and is hereby a rarity. It is a powerful moving account of an era America refuses to embrace, in her text books. But no one reading this book can ignore the value of Richardson's eyewitness account of America at her worse. On the other hand, you can't deny the tremendous progress this city and nation have made, in embracing diversity. This book is a handbook to the Civil Rights struggle.
Richardson's Ghosts in Time and Space offers groundwarmers a luminous triptych of memory, emotion and expression, fortified by unique wisdom borne of experience.
Making Connections: Geography and Drug Addiction Geography involves making connections – connections in our world among people and places, cultures, human activities, and natural processes. It involves understa- ing the relationships and ‘connections’ between seemingly disparate or unrelated ideas and between what is and what might be. Geography also involves connecting with people. When I rst encountered an extraordinarily vibrant, intelligent, and socially engaged scientist at a private d- ner several years ago, I was immediately captivated by the intensity of her passion to understand how and why people become addicted to drugs, and what could be done to treat or prevent drug addiction. Fortunately, she was willing to think beyond the bounds of her own discipline in her search for answers. Our conversation that evening, which began with her research on fundamental biochemical processes of drug addiction in the human body, evolved inevitably to an exploration of the ways in which research on the geographical context of drug addiction might contribute to the better understanding of etiology of addiction, its diffusion, its interaction with geographically variable environmental, social, and economic factors, and the strategies for its treatment and prevention. This fascinating woman, I soon learned, was Nora Volkow, the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse as well as the granddaughter of Leon Trotsky.
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