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Chicago freedom: “Your first amendment rights can be terminated.”

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Chicago freedom: “Your first amendment rights can be terminated.” With video.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

6 comments

6 comments

  • Kelly Starks
    March 22, 2012 at 12:03 pm

    I’m from around Chicago.

    … this does not surprize. Remember ni the 60’s when they draged the leed NBC news anchor off the floor of the dem national convention and arrested him, WHILE HE WAS ON THE AIR because he said some things the mayor didn’t like?

  • Chris Kirkendall
    March 22, 2012 at 1:36 pm

    Yep – that was old Mayor Daley, Rich Daley’s Dad. Not much has changed – I live in the Chicago area & the corruption is just staggering. In one of the recent primaries for a Congressional seat, a Dem who was just CONVICTED of bribery got 77% of the votes in his district ! ! It’s been incredibly warm here for over a week, low & mid 80s & there’s been a rash of violence, 49 shootings & several deaths just in the last few days – I’m ashamed & embarrassed – we’re becoming Detroit (no offense to any Detroiters who are equally appalled at what their city has become). This is what you get when you have a Democrat Machine-controlled city, and Cook County is totally controlled by the Dems, as well as the State of IL – all drowning in massive debt, taxes going thru the roof, crime, and corruption. I warned people about Obama – told them this is what you’re gonna get, because he’s right out of this culture of corruption. Not enough listened…

  • Jim
    March 22, 2012 at 1:42 pm

    CBS. Dan Rather.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrlYRWD_tnA
    The good old days! When conventions really convened. You’re dating yourself, Kelly!

  • Kelly Starks
    March 23, 2012 at 6:21 am

    I could have just seen it in a history class — yeah thats it!!

    ;)

  • Kelly Starks
    March 23, 2012 at 6:25 am

    Fear not. Detroit is much worse….They’ve lost almost a third of the metro population, adn large areas of the city are being taken over by wildlife (Dear hunting in the abandoned nieghborhoods?!!

    Of course humans are the favority prey there.

    Yeah, I do get tired of voters voting in such corrupt destructive fools.

  • Jim
    March 23, 2012 at 8:23 am

    Me too! And my grandfather told me all about it!!!!

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