David Niewert Book Signing

David Niewert will be on the campus of Montana State University tomorrow for a book signing at the MSU Bookstore.  If you don't know who David Niewert is, then it's high time you learned.  His official spiel from his website:

David Neiwert is a freelance journalist based in Seattle. He is the author of Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese American Community (Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, June 2005), as well as Death on the Fourth of July: The Story of a Killing, a Trial, and Hate Crime in America, (Palgrave/St. Martin's, 2004), and In God's Country: The Patriot Movement and the Pacific Northwest (1999, WSU Press). His reportage for MSNBC.com on domestic terrorism won the National Press Club Award for Distinguished Online Journalism in 2000. His freelance work can be found at Salon.com, the Washington Post, MSNBC and various other publications. He can be contacted at [email protected].

The accolades for David's writing don't stop there.  He won the 2003 Koufax award (an award to honor  excellence on the WWW) for his series, Rush, Newspeak, and Fascism.  He won the award again in 2004 for his online series The Rise of Pseudo-Fascism. 

I first encountered David's writing sometime back in 2003 and was hooked instantly.  The issues he researches are the very things that interest me.  He has strong ties to Montana, and worked for the Missoulian for some time.  His first book, In God's Country, puts a rather alarming exposure to the rise and actions of militants in this state, and throughout the Northwest.  His latest book, Strawberry Days, for which he will be doing the signing tomorrow, chronicles the destruction of Japanese American communities by the internment orders of World War II, and stands as a strong indictment of Michelle Malkin's travesty of history, In Defense of Locking Up People Who Scare Us Because Of Their Race Internment. 

I can't say enough about the quality freelance journalism and writing that David does on his website Orcinus, so I won't try.  What he offers us for free is well beyond anything that newspapers the country 'round want us to purchase.  Earlier this year, some wingnutty asshat suggested that there are no website authors from the left offering insightful essays and commentary.  All one need do to refute that charge is point to David Neiwert.

When we are little kids, we are often asked "Who are your heroes"?  Being something of a sentimentalist, I still ask myself that question to this day.  David Niewert is one of my heroes.  Please, come meet him tomorrow at the MSU Bookstore.  He'll be there from 11:00 to 2:00.  You'll definitely be glad you did.

 

Comments

[Jeff]

I take it no one could work out some kind of lecture/talk?

I should be down there either right at 11 am or after 1 pm. Or both.