When the Almond Tree Blossoms by David Aikman

When the Almond Tree Blossoms by David Aikman

David Aikman, former senior foreign correspondent for Time magazine, first published When the Almond Tree Blossoms in 1993, as the Cold War ended and political polarization grew in the United States. Twenty-three years later, his novel is as timely as ever. The 2016 presidential election pits unabashed socialists and jaded capitalists against each other, and the nation seems more politically polarized than it's been since the Civil War. This book is a reminder of what's at stake: not only freedom, but life and peace. It's 1998 in this alternative timeline. The US is controlled by a radical, collectivist regime bent on maintaining control despite a growing nuclear threat from the resistance. Douglas Richfield supported the People's Movement early on and now participates in its regime as an assistant adviser for protocol. He's known as an activist and a progressive, but he's not entirely at ease with the movement he's always supported. Limitations on freedom of speech, along with military police brutality, give him pause. A conversation with a beautiful stranger only increases his confusion. Perhaps the People's Movement regime is neither as secure nor as noble as he once thought. Just as these doubts begin to form, the regime takes him out of his comfortable office job and into the field, where he must choose once and for all whether his loyalties lie with the People's Movement or the Constitutionalist resistance. Aikman addresses world politics, secret agendas, and ultimately biblical prophecy in this thriller

David Aikman, is a former Senior Correspondent of Time Magazine who currently is a contributor to the American Spectator, the Weekly Standard, and the Reader's Digest in Washington, and is a regular monthly columnist for Charisma Magazine. A Senior Fellow at Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center, he is also a frequent commentator on Voice of America's Issues in the News and has been host of National Empowerment Television's Headlines and Deadlines. He was a consultant and on-camera commentator for MSNBC's coverage of Britain's return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in July 1997. Before he left Time in July 1994 to pursue full-time writing, speaking, television, and other activities, he had reported from five continents and nearly 60 countries. He has made additional television appearances to discuss current affairs on CNN, C-Span, CBN News, and CBC. Aikman is a specialist in the Middle East, Russia, and China. While in Jerusalem in 1980-1982 he was elected Chairman of the Foreign Press Association and reported firsthand on events in the West Bank and Gaza, and on the war in Lebanon, and was an eyewitness to the Tienanmen Massacre in China in 1989. He has interviewed numerous leaders and Nobel laureates, from Manuel Noriega to Mother Teresa, from Boris Yeltsin to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, from Billy Graham to Pham Van Dong. Aikman was born in England and educated at Oxford University in England (B.A. with honors in Russian and French). He later came to the U.S. and earned an M.A. in Central Asian languages and a Ph.D. in Russian and Chinese- history from the University of Washington in Seattle. He is a U.S. citizen, and married with two teenage daughters.

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ISBN 13	9781940269931
ISBN 10	1940269938
Titel	When the Almond Tree Blossoms
Autor	David Aikman
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Deep River Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2016-09-01
Seitenanzahl	352
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