American Pie - Baughman, Michael
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Among my ancestors, first on my mother's side, then my father's, are a Mohawk Indian chief and the burgermeister of a northern German village. Thayendanegea, aka Joseph Brant, fought valiantly against the Americans in the Revolutionary War. He died in 1807, and a Canadian general hospital in Burlington, Ontario carries his name today. I never learned the burgermeister's name. As a boy growing up in western Pennsylvania my grandparents explained to me that he had been shot to death in 1935, two years before I was born, for publicly speaking out against Adolph Hitler. The chief and the…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Among my ancestors, first on my mother's side, then my father's, are a Mohawk Indian chief and the burgermeister of a northern German village. Thayendanegea, aka Joseph Brant, fought valiantly against the Americans in the Revolutionary War. He died in 1807, and a Canadian general hospital in Burlington, Ontario carries his name today. I never learned the burgermeister's name. As a boy growing up in western Pennsylvania my grandparents explained to me that he had been shot to death in 1935, two years before I was born, for publicly speaking out against Adolph Hitler. The chief and the burgermeister inspired me to write what will likely be my last work of fiction, American Pie. I believe the novel to be rooted in truth about its subjects: greed, bigotry, cruelty, friendship, love and compassion, hypocrisy and politics - a grim, satirical, sometimes comic allegory speaking to our troubled world's past, present, and seemingly inevitable future. The story's major theme is expressed in the introductory epigraph, a single sentence from British philosopher Bertrand Russell: Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those not regarded as members of the herd. MB
Autorenporträt
Michael Baughman was born in Buffalo, New York in 1937 and spent much of his childhood on his great-grandfather John Brant's farm in western Pennsylvania. Brant was a descendant of Joseph Brant, the Mohawk chief who fought against America in the Revolutionary War. Baughman graduated from Punahou School in Honolulu in 1955; served in the army in Germany, where he married his wife Hilde in 1961; earned a master's degree at San Francisco State College in 1965; wrote as a special contributor for Sports Illustrated for several years, mostly on outdoor and environmental subjects; retired as an emeritus English professor from Southern Oregon State University in 1995. He and Hilde, married for 63 years, live in Ashland, Oregon. American Pie is Baughman's tenth book.