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Ian Williams
RUM: A Social and Sociable
History of the Real Spirit
of 1776
RETURN OF THE DEADLINE PUNDIT
Over the years, many colleagues have asked me, why not do a Blog? Well, I was very busy, and somewhat prejudiced. I thought, writers who can write, publish, those who can't, blog. That prejudice was reinforced by the anonymous attacks of conservative bloggers, like the eight grade school teacher from California whose grey and undistinguished career is spent tracking my writings and attacking the journalistic integrity of myself and colleagues from behind the shelter of anonymity. It made me think that those who can, do,and those who can't, teach, while those who are too arrogant for the honorable teaching profession, blog anonymously. But then I saw distinguished colleagues who do indeed put their names on their Blogs, and I decided to take the plunge. So, here it is, my blog: Deadline Pundit
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His first book The alms trade: Charities, past, present, and future was published in 1989
and United Nations for Beginners was published in 1995,Deserter: George Bush's War on Military Families, Veterans, and His Past was published in 2004,and quickly followed by
his current book, (August 2005) Rum: A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776
   
He has contributed chapters to George Orwell into the 21st Century - T Cushman ed, Paradigm Publishing 2005, Why Kosovo Matters: The Debate on the Left Revisited - Danny Postel, ed. (Cybereditions, 2005) Irving Howe, Ed. John Rodden "Irving Howe's hero-worship of Trotsky: Where the NeoCons came from," and a poem, the Rubayat of Alfred J Prufrock, MBA, to The KGB Bar Reader, Nation Books, ed Mark Jacobson.
In 2006, he will have chapters in The Iraq War, Rick Fawn and Raymond Hinnebusch (ends), 2005 "The UN and Iraq," and The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell - Ed. John Rodden Cambridge University Press.
He has been a regular contributor in Britain to the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph, the European, the Observer, the Independent, the Sunday Herald, the Scotsman and to magazines such as the New Statesman, Plays & Players and Punch.
In the US he has contributed to Newsday, LA Weekly, Village Voice, New York Observer, Penthouse, and many others. He writes for online media such as Salon, OpenDemocracy and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. For online articles please click here.
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NEW FROM NATION BOOKS!  RUM: A Social and Sociable
History of the Real Spirit
of 1776 www.RumSpiritOf1776.com Rum arguably shaped the modern world. It was to the eighteenth century what oil is to the present, but its significance has been diminished by a misguided sense of old-fashioned morality dating back to Prohibition. In fact, Rum shows that even the Puritans took a shot now and then. Rum, too, was one of the major engines of the American Revolution, a fact often missing from histories of the era.
Ian Williams’s book—as biting and multilayered as the drink itself—triumphantly restores rum’s rightful place in history, taking us across space and time, from the slave plantations of seventeenth-century Barbados (the undisputed birthplace of rum) through Puritan and revolutionary New England, to voodoo rites in modern Haiti, where to mix rum with Coke risks invoking the wrath of the gods. He also depicts the showdown between the Bacardi family and Fidel Castro over the control of the lucrative rights to the Havana Club label. Telling photographs are also featured in this barnstorming history of the real "Spirit of
1776."
IAN WILLIAMS, AUTHOR, WRITER, SPEAKER
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Contacts for Ian Williams:
Tel: (212) 686-8884
Email: uswarreport(at)igc.org
Address:
333 East 30th Street Apt 10J
New York, NY 10016
USA
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