PRLog (Press Release) – Apr 17, 2011 – Immerse yourself in a passing period in American history that is often misunderstood and underappreciated with author Dick Rose's Tarnished Brass Curtain: A Novel of Vietnam
From the Navy headquarters to the skies over Vietnam to the college classroom to the coffee house of an anti-war group, experience six months in the turbulent year of 1968.
Immerse yourself in a passing period in American history that is often misunderstood and underappreciated; delve into a critical time of Vietnam's history that challenged them as a nation; take a rare and realistic look into the psyche of the American military men. Experience all these and more with author Dick Rose's Tarnished Brass Curtain: A Novel of Vietnam.
"Tarnished Brass Curtain" explores the sibling themes of conscience and responsibility. The thoughts and feelings of two men-one young, innocent and practical; the other, older, experienced, and idealistic-are examined.
Meet Senior Chief Journalist Dan Levin. Follow his relat my photo and wallpaper ionship with the Navy, his doubts about his leadership abilities, and the Navy's handling of a public relations crisis over the apparent desertion of the admiral's son. Dan is an idealistic and conscientious Jewish career Navy man, trying to adjust to an environment that is frequently hostile and always alien to him. He is concerned about his obligations to the Navy, to his family, to his friend (the admiral's son), and to his conscience.
Meet Lieutenant (junior grade) Fred Hetherington, an Annapolis graduate, attack helicopter pilot, and product of generations of inbreeding within the Navy's aristocracy. He, too, is attempting to reconcile his conscience with his duty. He has refused to return to his unit in Vietnam and has taken sanctuary with a peace activist group. There, he begins to question the correctness of his action, while he seeks someone who will understand him and his action.
Accompany them as they try to understand the reality and accept the truth of their actions and consequences in Master Chief Rose's stirring novel.
Book Information:Tarnished Brass Curtain: A Novel of Vietnam By Dick Rose Publisher: CreateSpace/BookSurge ISBN: 9781439271131 Pages: 262 Published: August 2010
About The Author Dick Rose was born in Chicago, IL on August 16, 1931. He attended school in Chicago through the tenth grade before moving to Los Angeles, CA in 1947. He finished high school in 1949 and graduated from Los Angeles City College on June 14, 1951, one day before entering the Navy.
Rose had a long career in the Navy as a journalist and following his retirement as a Master Chief Journalist in 1971, he entered San Diego State University, earning a BA with honors in English in 1972, and an MA in 1975. While in school, he realized that he had to tell his story, his view as a participant, as a disillusioned career navy man.
The story became his Masters Thesis, Tarnished Brass Curtain, a novel about the Vietnam experience. In it, he was able to dramatize the contradictions and doubts faced by a dedicated and loyal Navy man. It also allowed him to explore alienation, the outside status he had always felt as a Jewish second generation American in what he saw as WASP-oriented society.
Though he has had many news stories and feature articles published in military and civilian newspapers and magazines, and wrote an award-winning radio drama in 1966 saluting the Hungarian Freedom Fighter, he remains focused on Vietnam. He was active in Vietnam Veterans of America, where he served in various chapter offices, and edited a newsletter, Frontlines. He was also a contributing editor to the VVA California State newspaper, The California Zephyr.
Throughout his post-Navy career, he wrote humorous newspaper columns for various VA and community newspapers, under the title Through Rose-colored Glasses.
For more information, review copies, or interviews please contact the author at:
Dick Rose Email: uforiac@yahoo.com Website: http:/ oled technology on mobile phone /www.dickroseauthor.com
Tarnished Brass Curtain is available from the author's website, Amazon.com, BN.com and other online channels.
Bookstores should contact Ingram and Baker & Taylor for wholesale orders.
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