Jake Dalton confronts with his worst nightmare; someone high in the United States government is doing the unthinkable. He's not selling secrets for financial gain or leaking classified information for political purposes, he's actively engaged in trying to destroy the country. After gathering the evidence to confirm his suspicions about the actions of politically powerful traitor, Jake begins his quest to stop the lunatic before his plan to cripple the United States turns into a reality. What he doesn't know is that his enemy is aware of his activities and determines that Jake knows too much and must remain forever silent. Before Jake can address the wanton act of treason, he must first deal with those who would kill him. He uses every bit of knowledge and skill he has to deal with those who want him dead. While he struggles to stay alive, he must also come to the aid of his nation. His only concern is if he has enough time to do the impossible before his country falls into the dustbin of history.
Johannesburg was still a brash mining town, better known for the production of wealth than knowledge, and the University of the Witwatersrand a mere ten years old when, in 1932, these ten lectures were delivered under the auspices of the University Philosophical Society. They portrayed the ideas of the university’s leading academics of the day, and the programme of lectures reveals a studied effort to introduce an element of bipartisan political representation between English and Afrikaner in South Africa by including Wits’ first principal, Jan Hofmeyr, and politician, D.F. Malan, as discussion chairs. Yet, no black intellectuals were represented and, indeed, the politics of racial segregation bursts through the text only in a few of the contributions. For the most part, race is alluded to only in passing. As Saul Dubow explains in his new introduction to this re-issue of the lectures, Our Changing World-View was an occasion for Wits’ leading faculty members to position the young university as a mature institution with a leadership role in public affairs. Above all, it was a means to project the university as a research as well as a teaching institution, led by a vigorous and ambitious cohort of liberal-minded intellectuals. That all were male and white will be immediately apparent to readers of this reissued volume. Ranging from economics, psychology, a spurious rebuttal of evolution to a substantial revisionist history and the perils of the ‘machine age’, this book is a sombre reflection of intellectual history and the academy’s role in promulgating political and social divisions in South Africa.
This is a remarkable story of the victory of spirit over adversity. Kevin Dalton spent his life from 1934 when he was two until he was sixteen in orphanages. From an early age he wanted to be ordained and this is the story of how this ambition waxed and waned through all the vicissitudes of early disadvantage. He arrived in Dublin aged 18 with only a primary education and without a job. 'This was 1951 when there were few jobs to be had. Unemployment was endemic and thousands of people were emigrating to find work ... I pounded the footpaths of Dublin calling to shops and businesses looking for work ... I hid my torn trousers and my scruffy clothes with a long overcoat. After two months of no success I was demoralized to the point that I considered going to England.' He eventually got work and qualified as a miller, but still had to confront his lifelong ambition to be ordained. While working during the day he set about studying for the Trinity College entrance exam. After much effort, he eventually passed, and entered Trinity in 1961. In 1966 he was ordained in the Church of Ireland, and spent a year of post-graduate study in America. His ministry has been spent in parishes in Dublin. This is a memoir that oscillates between pathos and humor. Above all, this is a memoir of determination to survive and to achieve an ambition against the odds. Kevin Dalton is currently rector of Monkstown, Co Dublin.
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