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Beyond Cantua Creek

A Fascinating Series of Articles That Include National and International Events That Escaped Media Attention

By: Elvin C. Bell

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Beyond Cantua Creek

A Fascinating Series of Articles That Include National and International Events That Escaped Media Attention

By: Elvin C. Bell

In Beyond Cantua Creek, a seasoned political insider with White House experience, shares some fascinating experiences during the Nixon Administration, including the Nixon-Brezhnev White House Summit Conference. During the Iron Curtain era, Elvin Bell led several intelligence missions into Russia, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, in addition to later serving two special assignments in the White House and completing a tour in the Pentagon during the Ronald Reagan administration. He utilizes his political experience to provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the power structure that existed during the Nixon administrationa foundation that allowed a secretary to appoint her own boyfriend to be secretary of the interior. As he shares the contents of startling conversations and meetings with Soviet President Leonid Ilych Brezhnev, Nixons secretary Rosemary Woods, Hollywood producer Sam Peckinpah, and scores of other notables, Bell captures the drama that escaped media attention and instead thrived behind the walls of the White House and elsewhere. Beyond Cantua Creek is a compelling compilation that will encourage lively discussions about politics, a presidential administration that will never be forgotten, and the eccentricities of those who once ruled Hollywood.

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1450233007

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The Event Makers I’Ve Known

By: Elvin C. Bell

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The Event Makers I’Ve Known

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This memoir presents author Elvin Bells recollection of his own history and of his encounters with some of the most well-known movers and shakers of the times. He provides us with astonishing revelations based upon his discussions, meetings, and casual conversations with them. The Event Makers Ive Known shares incredible close-ups of everyone from President Richard Nixon and his secretary, Rosemary Woods, to Elvis Presley and screen siren Marilyn Monroe. Bell reveals shocking details of the love affair between Woods and the Interior Secretary and describes the impetuosity of General William Westmoreland, among other stories. In addition to sharing stories of the famous people he has known, he tells his own personal stories, including the tragic story of his grandmothers death within just a few minutes of his mothers birth in a fire that engulfed the hospital in flames. He talks about the daring rescue of his mother by the young doctor who delivered hera rescue that cost the doctor his eyesight, his occupation, and eventually his life. He also shares fascinating stories of the hardships, ingenuity, and perseverance that many parents and grandparents endured on their dust bowl quest to reach California. In his tenth book, The Event Makers Ive Known, Bell takes readers on an emotional roller-coaster ride of superstar meltdowns, victories, and heartfelt personal stories.

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1475947941

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9781475947946

Friends, Patriots, and Scoundrels

A Memoir

By: Elvin C. Bell

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Friends, Patriots, and Scoundrels

A Memoir

By: Elvin C. Bell

Senator Robert F. Bobby Kennedy had just lost the 1968 presidential primary election in Oregon to Senator Eugene McCarthy when Elvin Bell, Fresno, Californias Mayor Pro Tem, hosted him for a breakfast meeting. As an exhausted Kennedy approached the podium to speak, Bell watched in amazement as Kennedy transformed from a frail man into a powerful speaker. Moments later as Bell rose to his feet with other audience members in a rousing standing ovation, he had no idea that he would never see his friend Bobby again. Bobby was shot the next day in Los Angeles and died within hours. Bell, a retired public official and USAF colonel, shares a compelling compilation of anecdotes that highlight the iconic personalities he has known and worked with during his assignments in the White House and the Pentagon, as well as during official foreign travels and various activities throughout America. In addition to the everyday characters and scoundrels he has encountered in his lifetime, he features nearly eighty personalities that include Gregory Peck, John Wayne, John Lennon, Eleanor Roosevelt, General Alexander Haig, Frank Sinatra, and Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan. In this fascinating memoir, a former political figure takes a look back at the true-life characters he has encountered and how they made a difference in his life and the world.

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1491752130

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9781491752135

Memories of Wagging Tails, Friends, and Special Events

By: Elvin C. Bell

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Memories of Wagging Tails, Friends, and Special Events

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Special Memories is an astonishing recollection of meetings and discussions with some of the most well-known movers and shakers of the times. The author shares incredible close-ups with, to name a few, Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, and Robert Kennedy. Some of the stories reveal shocking details, such as a torrid White House love affair, how Russian leader Leonid Brezhnev was almost killed just minutes before a summit conference in Washington, why John Wayne started to like pork over steak, and how Frank Sinatra burned a hole in the author’s new sport coat. A box of tissue is suggested for some of the encounters the author had, especially the sad behind-the-scene tug-a-war Marilyn had during her short life, Jimmy Doolittle experienced after the bombing of Tokyo, and John Daily had during his early professional golf career. In his nineteenth book, Special Memories, Elvin Bell takes readers on an emotional roller-coaster ride of superstar meltdown, victories, and heartfelt personal stories. It is a sip and flip thriller.

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Archway Publishing

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166570747X

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9781665707473

It Was a Good Road All the Way

An Autobiography: Volume Ii

By: Elvin C. Bell

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It Was a Good Road All the Way

An Autobiography: Volume Ii

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Elvin C. Bell, a retired USAF colonel and public official, has lived a full life. In the second volume of his entertaining autobiography, he brings more stories to life that detail his memorable encounters with such iconic personalities as former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, rock legend John Lennon, Walt Disney, and a few scoundrels who also crossed his path. Bell begins by sharing fascinating anecdotes about a variety of political and military figures such as senators and congressmen from multiple states, four Medal of Honor recipients, and General Alexander Haig. Also included are animated stories about John Wayne, Karen and Richard Carpenter, Eleanor Roosevelt, O.J. Simpson, and many others as well as little known facts about Gregory Peck’s secret philanthropic efforts and Senator Barry Goldwater’s military accomplishments during the Second World War and his monetary gifts to Native American tribes. In the conclusion to a captivating autobiography, a former military and public figure shares anecdotes that reveal his conversations with and unknown facts about a variety of iconic personalities.

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1480887943

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9781480887947

A Life Beyond Infinity

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A Life Beyond Infinity

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Author Elvin C. Bell began life as the fifth of ten children in a migrant farm labor family. From a one-room cabin in a cotton camp to the White House, and everything in between, hes lived a rich and colorful life. In A Life beyond Infinity, he shares a collection of essays of the people hes met from his experiences in the US Air Force, his assignments in the White House, as a reporter and writer, and as an elected representative. Bell mixes sparkling smiles, smarts, sass and sorrow in describing his visits, conversations, and friendships to provide close-ups of everyone from Presidents Kennedy, Nixon, Johnson, and Carter, to Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Milton Berle, and many other notables. In A Life beyond Infinity, Bell describes his encounters with some of the most well-known movers and shakers of the times.

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1532015968

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9781532015960

Leave Well Enough Alone

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Leave Well Enough Alone

By: Elvin C. Bell

Bertha Aurora Dominguez is an alluring and provocative woman of considerable wealth. As the United States Delegate to the Organization of American States boards a plane from Santiago, Chile, to Atlanta, no one knows that she is also the leader of an international terrorist network—except perhaps the nun who has strategically seated herself two rows in front of her in first class. Over the years, Dominguez, also known as Big Balls Bertha, has developed a heart as hard as diamonds, a stomach of iron, a tearless eye, and the ability to utilize various disguises and surrogates to outsmart the FBI, CIA, and Interpol agents determined to capture her. She hates trespassers and America. When she contemplates what America’s war forces have done to so many countries that include Kosovo, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, Dominguez’s hatred of America grows. As she slowly transforms her apartment into an arsenal to be used by her mercenaries to rid the world of trespassers, Dominguez unfurls an evil plan that, if she is not stopped, has the potential to destroy America forever. Leave Well Enough Alone shares the heart-stopping journey of a female terrorist as she embarks on a resolute mission to destroy the United States.

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1480883581

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A Life Beyond Infinity

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The Flim-Flam City

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The Flim-Flam City

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A sip and flip thriller. The reader will meet elected officials who rule their custom-made government through murder, corruption and cover-up. The strong determination of a victim's widow to see justice done takes matters into her own hands until, finally, the Federal Strike Force shows up.. But there are new, dangerous obstacles to face before law and order is restored.

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1480893536

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Beyond Cantua Creek

A Fascinating Series of Articles That Include National and International Events That Escaped Media Attention

By: Elvin C. Bell

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A Fascinating Series of Articles That Include National and International Events That Escaped Media Attention

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It Was a Good Road All the Way

An Autobiography: Volume Ii

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An Autobiography: Volume Ii

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Book's by Elvin C. Bell

Beyond Cantua Creek

Beyond Cantua Creek

The Event Makers I’Ve Known

The Event Makers I’Ve Known

Friends, Patriots, and Scoundrels

Friends, Patriots, and Scoundrels

Memories of Wagging Tails, Friends, and Special Events

Memories of Wagging Tails, Friends, and Special Events

It Was a Good Road All the Way

It Was a Good Road All the Way

A Life Beyond Infinity

A Life Beyond Infinity

Leave Well Enough Alone

Leave Well Enough Alone

A Life Beyond Infinity

A Life Beyond Infinity

The Flim-Flam City

The Flim-Flam City

Beyond Cantua Creek

Beyond Cantua Creek

It Was a Good Road All the Way

It Was a Good Road All the Way

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