The Gods of Antenna

About the Book

If the new generation is not told accurate information, then not only will the new generation and the generations that follow be misguided but, more importantly, the policy makers of the future will be making decisions based on mis-assessments.

There are three areas in which the truth of the past has been tragically misrepresented: The actions of the President, the role of the media, and the buried legacy of the South Vietnamese, the Laotians, the Cambodians and, of course, the Americans who gave their lives for the liberty of others. There is no higher morality than dying for the well-being of a stranger, and that is what they did. Their enemies were not only on the battlefield: many of their enemies are still revising the history of those days, either to justify their past actions, or to cloak their consciences, or they simply don't know the truth because they have been bombarded by those who rejected it. Their recorded words and fictionalized images are, at best, what they think is true, and at worst, are meant to deceive you.

About the Author

Bruce Herschensohn has been a television and radio political commentator for the last two decades. After service in the U.S. Air Force he began his own motion picture company and then was appointed Director of Motion Pictures and Television for the United States Information Agency. During his tenure the USIA received more awards for film and television productions than all other departments and agencies of the U.S. Government combined, including the Oscar from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. In 1969, he was selected as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men in the Federal Government. He received the second highest civilian award, the Distinguished Service Medal, and then became Deputy Special Assistant to President Nixon. He has traveled to over ninety countries of the world. Herschensohn taught "The U.S. Image Abroad" at the University of Maryland, occupied the Nixon Chair at Whittier College teaching "U.S. Foreign and Domestic Policies" and was Chairman of the Board of Pepperdine University. He was appointed a member of the Reagan Transition Team. Herschensohn was the 1992 Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in California and was defeated while winning over one million votes more than the national ticket of the Party. He was a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University for the Spring 1996 Semester teaching "U.S. Foreign Policy." He is currently teaching "The World Leadership Role of the United States" at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy, and is a Distinguished Fellow at the Claremont Institute, and is a Non-Resident Associate Fellow of the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom. Books by Bruce Herschensohn include: "The Gods of Antenna" "Lost Trumpets" "The Last Time I Saw Hong Kong" "Hawks Without Wings, Doves Without Conscience" and "Hong Kong at the Handover."