The article and Delgado’s comments were also picked up by AlterNet and
referenced in UK newspapers: The Independent, Belfast Telegraph, Sunday Herald,
and Guardian online
Booklist, review in the August 1st issue:
“an absorbing and worthy story that offers one man’s perspective
on a conflict that continues to divide our nation.”
Publishers Weekly, review in the May 21st issue:
“he offers a welcome corrective to much of the aggressive rhetoric that
has pervaded the debate over the war in Iraq.”
Kirkus, review in the May 15th issue
Turning Wheel: The Journal of Socially Engaged Buddhism, review in
the Summer 2007 issue
Peacework Magazine, highlighted as a resource in the June 2007 issue
San Francisco Chronicle, review to run Sunday August 5th
Creative Loafing Sarasota, profile tk
Sarasota Herald Tribune, review tk
Broadcast:
The Santita Jackson Show, WVON-AM (Chicago) Interview aired Friday, July
27th at 9:30 AM (CT)
Sound Off with Sasha, WGCU-FM (SW Florida Public Radio) Interview aired
Friday, July 27th, 2:30-3 PM (ET)
The Air Americans (Air American Radio) Interview aired Monday, July 30 at
10:30 PM (ET)
RadioActive KRCL-FM (Salt Lake City) Live interview Thursday, August 2,
12-1 PM (MT)
Morning Edition with Jeff Schechtman, KVON-AM (Napa, CA). Live interview
Monday, August 27 8 AM (PT)
Peace and Social Justice Program, KZFR-FM (Sacramento Valley, CA) Live Interview
to air Friday, August 31st at Noon (PT)
RadioActivity WMNF-FM (Tampa) Live in-studio interview Thursday, September
6th at 1:05 PM (ET)
CNN International, author interviewed on Friday, July 13th at 5:30 pm (ET)
Democracy Now!, interview with Amy Goodman, aired July 12th
At Issue with Ben Merens, (Wisconsin Public Radio) Live interview Wednesday,
August 8, 5-6 PM central
Author Events:
New College of Florida (Sarasota, FL), Tuesday, September 4th
Inkwood Books (Tampa, FL), Thursday, September 6th at 7 p.m.
St. Petersburg Times Festival of Reading (St. Petersburg, FL), Saturday,
October 27th
Blurbs:
“Aidan Delgado is a powerful, eloquent writer. His description of how
he was transformed by the horrors of Iraq is unforgettable. He is a diamond
in the rough, sandblasted in the desert of Iraq.”
—Amy Goodman, host and executive producer, Democracy Now!
“Delgado’s deep sense of patriotism inspired him to join the Army
just before 9/11, ultimately leading to his ‘boots on the ground’
nightmare in Iraq. His insight helps you understand the desperation of soldiers
and the tragic and inevitable path leading to the photographs from Abu Ghraib.
This book is sure to incite and renew demands for accountability.”
—Former Brigadier General Janis Karpinski
“The point of view in this book is extraordinary—a Buddhist G.I.
inside Abu Ghraib prison, a witness to the horrors, a conscientious objector.
Aidan Delgado is a keen observer and an eloquent writer, and he shocks us while
also educating us about the reality of the war in Iraq.”
—Howard Zinn, author of You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
and A People's History of the United States
Blurbs about author:
“The public at large and especially the many soldiers who have behaved
honorably in Iraq deserve an honest answer. . . Mr. Delgado’s complaints
and the entire conduct of this wretched war should be thoroughly investigated.”
—Bob Herbert, opinion column, New York Times
Advertising:
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Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, 1/3 page winter issue
Friends Journal, 1/3 page September issue
Publicity, Reviews, and Praise:
Acts
of Faith, Eboo Patel, cloth, July 2007, $22.95, 978-0-8070-7726-9
“Midmorning”/Minnesota Public Radio, Wednesday, August 22nd from
10-11:00 a.m. (Central), live via ISDN
Inheriting
the Trade, Thomas Norman DeWolf, January 2008, cloth, $25.95, 978-0-8070-7281-3
“Thomas DeWolf’s personal journey into his family’s long
hidden slave trading past is a compelling invitation to explore how our country
and many institutions, including churches, benefited from this dark chapter.
Such exploration is essential if we are to move forward to a place of repair
and racial reconciliation.”
— Frank T. Griswold, 25th Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church
New Acquisition:
Photojournalist and activist, David Bacon, is the award winning author of
over a hundred articles and two books about labor and immigration. His new
book is an urgent examination of local, national, and international forces
that cause immigration. Bacon argues that for too many people, immigration
only becomes an issue when so called ‘illegals’ enter the United
States. He emphasizes that a new vocabulary—and global perspective—is
sorely needed in the debate, so that we appreciate the complex, and often
contradictory, forces that set migrants into motion. A fall 2008 book.
In the News:
Boston Globe, Beacon’s involvement in publishing Pentagon Papers
mentioned in an op-ed, July 31st:
“A seminal battle over legislative privilege was centered in Boston
during the early 1970s, when the Nixon Department of Justice investigated
how then-senator (and 2008 presidential candidate) Mike Gravel received
the ultra-secret Pentagon Papers . . . at a Senate subcommittee hearing,
Gravel tried to enter the papers into the record, then arranged for Boston-based
publisher Beacon Press to publish and distribute them.”
In the Blogs:
Tim Allen’s official website, excerpt and book recommendation for Man’s
Search for Meaning forthcoming
American
Furies, Sasha Abramsky, cloth, May 2007, $25.95, 978-0-8070-4222-9
Feminist Review online, review of American Furies posted July 31st:
Beacon Press is a department of the