Bøker av Jonathan Abel

Author's work has won Emmy's, CLIOs, TELLYs, and will have two Grammy entries in 2014. This action-packed WWII tale is "Patton" meets the "X-Files" and now has its own online trailer and is available as an AudioBook.The author's uncle, a battle-promoted hero, was General Douglas MacArthur's personal bodyguard during desperate days...during the Occupation of Japan...a smashed civilization.Flying saucers were daily headlines and wartime President Roosevelt actually saddled General Douglas MacArthur with solving the growing UFO question - who and what were they? Can we retrieve and back-engineer a crashed alien spacecraft for battle before the enemy could!This eBook and dimensional radio drama AudioBook, read by the author, reveal --Documented origins of the heroic Men in Black amidst global warfare!!The Phoenix Lights...the Double-Double-cross at Pearl Harbor...Mac's own UFO sighting...the Last Luzon Banzai Charge...Foo Fighters...Retaking the Philippines...the Deadly UFO Invasion of Los Angeles...Roswell...the Great UFO Trap at White Sands...And the TWO greatest secrets of WWII!Why did the author take on this topic?He was compelled to track down the origins of this incredible statement - in a speech at a 1955 West Point graduation, General Douglas MacArthur actually spoke these words --"The nations of the world will have to unite, for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets."

At the height of state censorship in Japan, more indexes of banned books circulated, more essays on censorship were published, more works of illicit erotic and proletarian fiction were produced, and more passages were Xed out than at any other moment before or since. As censors construct and maintain their own archives, their acts of suppression yield another archive, filled with documents on, against, and in favor of censorship. The extant archive of the Japanese imperial censor (1923-1945) and the archive of the Occupation censor (1945-1952) stand as tangible reminders of this contradictory function of censors. As censors removed specific genres, topics, and words from circulation, some Japanese writers converted their offensive rants to innocuous fluff after successive encounters with the authorities. But, another coterie of editors, bibliographers, and writers responded to censorship by pushing back, using their encounters with suppression as incitement to rail against the authorities and to appeal to the prurient interests of their readers. This study examines these contradictory relationships between preservation, production, and redaction to shed light on the dark valley attributed to wartime culture and to cast a shadow on the supposedly bright, open space of free postwar discourse. (Winner of the 2010-2011 First Book Award of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University"e; ).