Bill Stonebarger

East Gilman Street Bill Stonebarger

Memoirs that matter. Bill Stonebarger lived through the Great Depression, worked as a US Navy seaman, cab driver, teacher, entrepreneur, philosopher, poet and playwright through the WW2 war years, the booming 50s, the radical 60s, the inflationary 70s, the 80s malaise, the end-of-Cold-War and the digital-boom 90s and the turn-of-the-century world-progress times. Still active at 87 his memoirs that matter will surprise and delight 21st century readers as Thoreau?s classic Walden did in the 19th century and Hayek?s The Road to Serfdom did in the 20th. Weaving through the memoirs are the key ideas: (1) We are just at the dawn of big changes from the earth?s Agricultural Age to the Modern Age . (2) The U. S. has led the way into this new Modern Age of rising opportunity and freedom with a synergy of Science, Capitalism and Freedom of Religion. Chapters supply details: History, Travel, Cold Wars, Politics, Sex, Money, Levity, Education, Religion, Science, Social welfare, Sustainability, Theater and the Arts. Review excerpts below of Bill Stonebarger?s 2012 book, Twilight or Dawn? a Traveler?s Guide to Free-Market Liberal Democracy. ?Incredibly enjoyable. Bill covers major parts of recent global history with accuracy and readable flowing prose. ... I will use many of his ideas for my work with global environmental issues.? ?Dr. Stefan Gorzula, CITES Secretariat, Switzerland. ?A work of genius. I take off my hat to the author. Comprehensive, accurate and free of jargon.? ?Sidney Hook, philosopher and international champion of Democracy. ?When it comes to Bill, there?s gold in grey. Do yourself a favor and listen. You might just see our world quite differently.? ?Kerry Swift, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.