Paul Doutrich is an award-winning author and a professor emeritus of American history at York College of Pennsylvania, where he taught for thirty years. He now lives on Cape Cod in Brewster, Massachusetts. In 2023, his book, The Many Adventures of Donnie Malone, received a Literary Titan Gold Medal Award.
The Many Adventures of Donnie Malone takes readers into the events that helped shape the American twentieth century. They begin when sixteen-year-old Donnie gets caught up in the patriotic swirl of World War I. Enlisting in the U.S. Army, he becomes a pilot during the deadly days at the end of the fighting.
The stakes in Donnie’s life are just as high after the war. He wrestles with wealthy investors and powerful politicians who have designs on his air delivery business. He is hired to drive a cab for an ambitious mobster and works at assorted dead-end jobs until he bumps into the man who taught him to fly, American ace Eddie Rickenbacker, and it changes his course.
Later, he befriends detainees in a Japanese internment camp, becomes enmeshed in labor struggles, and dodges McCarthy agents. During the Vietnam era, having seen enough war, Donnie helps several young men avoid the draft by flying them to Canada.
Woven throughout Donnie’s adventures are the threads of a rich family life and contentment, even in times of travail.
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Looking for a way to opt out of military service? Well, you are about forty-something years too late. You are safe. For people unfamiliar with civic duties, U.S. law states all male citizens of the country, including male immigrants, even illegal immigrants, must register for the Selective Service System (the
The Great Depression was a global economic crisis that spanned the years from 1929 through the 1930s. It stands as the most prolonged and severe financial downturn ever experienced by industrialized Western nations. Its onset prompted profound shifts in economic structures, macroeconomic strategies, and economic thought. While it emerged in
World War I produced a new realm of American heroes. One of those was Sergeant Alvin York, a Tennessee backwoods dirt farmer who single-handedly captured more than 132 Germans. Samuel Woodfill was later called “the greatest American soldier of the World War” by General John Pershing, commander of the American
When we open the dark books of history, one among many stories is overlooked every time: the living situation of people in Japanese American Internment Camps of WWII. These camps weren’t regular countryside camps set up for hiking, but they were surrounded by long fences topped with barbed wires, and
In May 1932 more than 20,000 desperate World War I veterans descended upon Washington D.C. During the next two months as many as 20,000 more, along with their families, joined them. Destitute victims of the Great Depression, they established an encampment across the Anacostia River in view of the Capitol.
Man has always had a fascination with flight. The quest of one led to that of another, and from kite flying to the very first hydrogen-powered hot-air balloons in the 18th century – we now have airplanes, helicopters, and fighter jets for various purposes. But the innovation is not over.
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