The Obama Revolution, my second book and the first book published about Barack Obama’s presidential campaign by a former campaign organizer, provides an in-the-trenches look at how a generation of people sparked a movement for change that continues to have lasting implications for politics in America. I wrote The Obama Revolution because I wanted to share with my fellow Americans the voices of millions of Americans who left their homes, their jobs and their schools, in order to register voters, make telephone calls and knock on doors in record numbers.
After eight years of George W. Bush’s tortuous defenses of the ill-conceived War in Iraq, funding cuts for education, health care, environmental protection, and executive approval of black sites, water boarding, and repression of dissenting voices, it is time for the voices of hope and change to be heard once again. It is time for us to overcome the apathy that has held us back from achieving our full potential. It is time for us to listen to the men in Mathews who leave their homes before dawn to work in the shipyards and the women in Harrisburg who work overtime to feed their children.
The Obama Revolution begins to tell the stories of the men and women who finally had enough of failed policies and decided to organize their neighbors, many for the first time. When I thought about writing a book about Obama’s inclusive presidential campaign, I knew that I wanted to put down on paper more than my version of history. With the office visits, late night phone calls, and mid-day canvasses of 2008 behind us, I began to think about what the campaign meant to me. The Obama Revolution is a call to arms to a generation that seized the opportunity to spread a radical message of change.
Writing The Obama Revolution, I found myself making connections between policy prescriptions, Obama’s rhetoric, and the nation’s future, connections that I did not have time to make while walking the streets of Allison Hill and driving across rural Virginia. Only in hindsight can we appreciate just how important those precious months of campaigning really were to the history and future of this great nation. As President Obama completes his first 100 days, we must rededicate ourselves to the dreams for which so many campaigned for so long. That is why I wrote The Obama Revolution.
Alan Kennedy-Shaffer served as a regional field director for Barack Obama and the Democratic Party in Virginia. Educated at Yale University and William & Mary Law School, Kennedy-Shaffer is the author of Denial and Deception: A Study of the Bush Administration’s Rhetorical Case for Invading Iraq. Kennedy-Shaffer’s writings have also appeared in The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Washington Post, the Patriot-News, the Daily Press, and the Virginia Gazette. Alan lives in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
You can visit Alan on the web at www.alankennedy-shaffer.com.
Years ago, as is still true now, I found I would happen upon some small event or object that would practically insist that it be written about. I’ve always leaned toward short stories because of their urgency and ability to deliver a satisfying beginning, middle, and end in a short period of time.
Sheri Kaye Hoff resides in Parker, CO with her husband and three children. She is a Life Coach and owner of the Sheri K Hoff International Coaching Company. She teaches college classes as an adjunct faculty member and has earned her Master of Arts in Organizational Management. Her new book, 
I envisioned writing a book for nearly twenty years. As I approached my 4oth birthday, I realized that I needed to move forward with my goal, so I quit my full time job and took a part time teaching position at a college so I could focus on building my life coaching practice and write my dream book. In the past, I started several books—which were mostly romance novels and I would stall out after the first few chapters.
Sheri Kaye Hoff resides in Parker, CO with her husband and three children. She is a Life Coach and owner of the Sheri K Hoff International Coaching Company. She teaches college classes as an adjunct faculty member and has earned her Master of Arts in Organizational Management. Her new book, Keys to Living Joyfully,offers a way of living a meaningful, successful and joy filled life.
I was an atheist confident in my unbelief. Man’s endless selfishness and destructiveness, the deaths caused by natural disasters, and the relentless march of science to explain everything without God constantly reinforced my views. At the same time, the foibles of holier-than-thou religious types demonstrated their moral failings.
C. William “Chet” Galaska was born in 1951. He began his college career at Drew University in Madison, NJ and graduated from the University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration. In 1979 he co-founded a company that casts stainless steel for use in corrosive industrial applications that grew into a multi-million dollar enterprise and was its president for 24 years before changing careers and becoming a real estate investor.
It took me over 6 months to publish my first book and when I saw Christiane Amanpour’s documentary about genocides which have been taking place and the current genocide going on in Darfur, I ask myself why such a cowardly behavior. I have learned that the reasons of genocides are racially, culturally and religiously based. These evil acts cannot be justified and the offenders need to know that they will be held accountable and justice will prevail. The same goes for dictators in Africa and other places around the world. They are selfish people who only think about their personal needs, instead of caring about their people. On paper, some of them are educated, but they still need to the Human Right School and get taught about it like first grade children. Abuse, torture and corruption are other central themes that I focus on in my book because if we ignore it, then we are setting ourselves up for failure.
Balthazar Rodrigue Nzomono-Balenda ( August 29, 1981), known as Rodrigue or Balthazar is a French-born Danish author and he is originally from the Republic of the Congo. Balthazar was born in Oullins, which is a suburb in Lyon, in France and his parents were diplomats in South Africa, before he and his family moved to Denmark. His parents, André & Rose Nzomono-Balenda were diplomats under the mandate of the former Congolese president, Pascal Lissouba. In 1997,there was civil war in the Congo As presidential elections scheduled for July 1997 approached, tensions between the Lissouba and Sassou camps mounted. On June 5, President Lissouba’s government forces surrounded Sassou’s compound in Brazzaville and Sassou ordered members of his private militia (known as “Cobras”) to resist. Thus began a four-month conflict that destroyed or damaged much of Brazzaville and caused tens of thousands of civilian deaths.
A few years back I was a single gal who had great friends and worked a bit too much. After many years of setups and dating, I still had not met the right person yet. I had an otherwise great life but didn’t have that special someone to share it with.
Cherie Burbach used her experience with meeting her husband online to pen At the Coffee Shop, a humorous look at the world of Internet dating. Cherie went on over 60 coffee dates in just six months. She met lots of great people and one of those turned out to be the guy she would marry just one year later.
