 To understand China today, one must know its history from the early emperors to Mao and the Tiananmen Square massacre. This work spans China's centuries.  From ancient Rome and Jerusalem to Dante, monks, drunks and gamblers, ending in Cuba with a young girl scourged by a mark on her face.  The killing field of the spirit. Post-traumatic-stress disorder -- an anguishing nightmare for GIs and civilians. This is the untold and agonizing story of such torture to the soul.  A New York Times bestseller for 17 weeks. Rave reviews as one of the most candid political memoirs ever written. Goldwater -- an American legend.  On melancholy days, the author says he still hears echoes from the piazzas of Italy. He and his family remember Rome every time they hear a Neapolitan song. Three kids, born in Rome, have never said Arrivederci Roma. As they put it: "Italy is the world's greatest opera!"  A dying missionary returns to America from 30 years in Africa to a Catholic Church he doesn't know -- the changes after Vatican II. He's forced into the battle of his life.  This book had to be written by a Chicagoan. It is tough yet sentimental and nostalgic. Hard-bitten yet warm and gentle. It is Authority vs. Conscience. |
My WorksAre objective reporting and writing possible? I've always answered by returning to the words of St. Thomas Aquinas: "A thing cannot be and not be at the same time." That simple sentence proves the existence of objective Truth. The Triumph at Tiananmen Square
Two Marines choose repatriation to China at the end of the Korean War. Amid a national uproar, America called them traitors. An intimate look at the two inside China--from the Great Leap Forward to the Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen Square massacre. China's greatest opera star joins the pair at the square in a dramatic struggle for a New China. The haunting tale recalls both the U.S. Civil War and Russian Revolution. --Joy Ruth Price, Old China Hand Caesar's Coin
“An age-old adventure of good versus evil across time and space. An incredible odyssey of a Roman coin. Spanning 17 countries and cities from the time of Julius Caesar to the present.” --Sarica Jhabvala, author and journalist Invisible Wounds
“A timeless and timely study of the crippling effects of war on the mind and body. Casserly brings shell shock out of the soldier’s closet...Recommended for anyone touched by this emotional illness, military or civilian.” --Chester Kujawa, U.S. Marine Corps, 5th Division, 1st Battalion, 26th Regiment (one of the few survivors from C Company, Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. Goldwater
David Broder's review in the Washington Post: "A bombshell of a memoir." The New York Times: "...great reading." Time: "Goldwater called 'em as he saw 'em. The Arizona Republican hasn't lost his verve or his venom." Los Angeles Times: "The cactus-tongued conscience of the Senate." Newsday: "What makes him so charming is his lack of guile. He says what he thinks, and he has not altered his views to fit changing political winds." Atlanta Journal & Constitution: "Absolutely fascinating...a superbly written inside account of Washington that will amaze, entertain, and outrage you from beginning to end. Goldwater is one of a kind, an American original." Once Upon a Time in Italy
A charming book about an American family falling in love with Italy -- from Popes Pius XII to John XXIII and Paul VI. From Lucky Luciano, the gangster, to Poilicarpo, the plumber. Ingrid Bergman to Leaping Lena, the motorscooter. Franco Bucarelli, the fast-talking Neapolitan urchin to Ercole Graziadei, the titan of Italian lawyers. Rome, Florence, Venice, Naples, Sicily, they are all here with the Casserlys trying to hold back the Italian tide for seven years. The wild cabbies, the strike calls of the Communist party, the crazy maids, the whistles of onlookers as men pinch women, the flirting, the opera singers, the Sunday puppets and mandolins. All actors and props strutting across the stage in a divine comedy. The Dancing Angel
"Unflinching frankness, makes fascinating reading and lingers in the mind. A wise and wonderful novel." Ralph McInerny, author of the Father Dowling TV series and "The Priest." A priest explains in the novel: "I remember when Catholics described the differences in the Church as an angel dancing on the head of a pin; now the angel is dancing on the tip of a flaming candle." Lontime Vatican reporter and author Barrett McGurn says this novel has it all -- from saints to abortion, drunks in the rectory, pedophile priests, and other problems among the laity. The drama unfolds in the lives of one Chicago Catholic family. It's better than TV's s "All in the Family." Lions in the City
“It’s all here...clerical bureaucracy, sexual freedom and its consequences, rectory loneliness, the temptations of drugs and alcohol...the quest for the meaning of existence...” --Barrett McGurn, author of A Reporter Looks at the Vatican and other books.
"Jack Casserly is the arch-typical journalist turned novelist, and he has the deep respect of any number of professional journalists around the globe...He has earned their admiration with his brilliant eye for detail and his ability to understand in a split second all kinds of situations and all kinds of different people. This book is the product of that kind of mind. Roger A. McCaffrey, publisher of The Latin Mass. The Hearsts -- Father and Son
A cavalcade of characters march across these pages -- from William Randolph Hearst, Sr., a tycoon larger than life, to his son, Bill, and such news stars as Damon Runyon, who celebrated Broadway and sports, to the acidic pen of columnist Westbrook Pegler, Walter Winchell, Louella Parsons, J. Kingsbury Smith and his scoops with Stalin, Khrushchev and other world leaders, the prolific, globetroting Bob Considine, and the co-author as well as Hearst friends who also were stars -- Bing Crosby, Clark Gable, David Niven, Howard Hughes, and many others. This work is rich in vignettes on the history of American journalism and the people who lit up the nation's lights. Scripps -- the divided dynasty
E.W. Scripps' Penny Papers were the first popular press in the nation. He flaunted flamboyant journalism before either Hearst or Pulitzer. E.W. drank more whiskey, knew more women and smoked more cigars than all his rivals put together. He feuded with his older brother and cast his eldest son adrift. This eventually led to the split between the national chain of big-city dailies and Edward Scripps who broke away from the family to found small-town papers from the East Coast to Hawaii. The family saga is more dramatic than its colorful stories. It's a front-page story in our national history. The Ford White House
This is presidential history as it happens -- hour by hour and day by day. It reveals how government actually works -- with disagreements, doubt and searching for answers that will effect every American. It features a fascinating collection of close-ups -- of Ford, Rockefeller, Kissinger, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Greenspan and others. The ending is a shocker -- the author's disillusionment with those vying for power who sometimes undercut the president and his aims for America. The writer separates himself from the power-seekers and leaves the White House disenchanted with those called to greatness but seek only themselves. |
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