Blueprint for Action lives . . . on Amazon!

Dateline: above the garage in Portsmouth RI, 26 April 2005

Got to Indy last night around 6pm. Drove with Gloria, our realtor, to the house. Way nice neighborhood. Outside of the house looked good. On end of cul-de-sac. Back yard has small creek with footbridge over to land going up step hill, all wooded. We would own to top of hill. One acre total, maybe . . . 100 or so tall thin trees. Back yard so shaded, grass barely grows. House is very unique in terms of layout and lotsa windows, but overpriced, especially for smallish 2-car garage. We will offer much less than asking, because they have not updated house much at all and it's a 1988-er. Still, those windows--everywhere and huge! Back of cathedral living room is wall of windows facing backyard forest. Stunning really.

So realtor works up offer and we'll submit this week. Owners are building and like that we don't want in until mid-July. We'll see what they say on the price. Their realtor has already warned them they have not updated and are pricing as if they did.

Meanwhile, my wife, looking for cover art of second book to have on my b-day cake, discovers the BFA entry on Amazon!

Here it is: Blueprint for Action : A Future Worth Creating by Thomas Barnett.

The entry reads:

Product Details

Hardcover: 288 pages

Publisher: Putnam Adult (October 20, 2005)

ISBN: 0399153128

Here's the funny thing: the also-boughts are mostly by authors I cite in BFA as being excessively "dark":

The Pentagon's New Map by Thomas P. M. Barnett

Pentagon's New Map, The by Thomas Barnett

Algeny: A New Word--A New World by Jeremy Rifkin

The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where all of Life is a Paid-For Experience by Jeremy Rifkin

Entropy: A New World View by Jeremy Rifkin

The War in 2020 by Ralph Peters

The Island of Dr. Moreau (Bantam Classics) by H.G. WELLS

No kidding. I actually cite Peters and that book, Rifkin and (I think) that book, and I cited Wells for "Moreau" but then switched it to "Time Machine." That is SOOOOOOOO weird!

I mean it! I just did those entries on Sunday in the endnotes!

So here are all my real books on Amazon now:



1) PNM hardcover at 2,188

2) PNM paperback at 6,035

3) BFA hardcover at 789,904

4) Romanian and East German Policies in the Third World (my PhD diss) at 2,261,335.

I note that the same also-boughts are there. Apparently, my hard-core fans are not attracted by my optimism!

Finished my review of all the interviews (13) and the transcripts (about 250 pages) on the plane home today. I get up at 0600 tomorrow, plot it by 0900, and write 8 hours til I depart for airport. Hope to have 6k to Warren before I go wheels up. I am psyched. Piece will write itself, which is why I mowed lawn today and watched 16mm newsreels of WWI with Kevin. Needed to decompress just a bit and let my mind wander as I get tuned up.

Wish me luck tomorrow. Gotta be good.