IT'S HUMAN NATURE

About the Book

"AFFIRMATIVE ACTION"
The re-segregation of the town's public high school, because of the flight of the white student population, forged a riff between a politically ambitious father, who was campaigning for a top municipal office, and his veteran son who wanted to get his high school diploma.

"HOME FOR CHRISTMAS"
A family's Christmas was nearly ruined when the parents took their two children on a tropical vacation for the holidays.

"UP AGAINST IT"
When an Assistant Bank Manager lost his job, wife, home and money, he became a criminal in his quest to get back to his hometown to start over.

"OH, DANNY BOY"
A young man's driving ambition to become a successful rhythm'n'blues entertainer caused him to hurt the ones who cared most for his success and well-being.

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND JULIUS ROSENWALD, AND THEIR "INVESTMENT IN PEOPLE ."

"PEACE ON EARTH" (A Play)
Astronauts are shuttled into space, to repair a spaceship, when one has a nightmarish dream about the outbreak of global conflict and destruction their mission could cause.

"SENIOR PASSION"
A small clique of senior ladies in an Assisted Living Residence organize a club to bolster the sex drive of their significant other and themselves.

About the Author

WILLIAM HAIRSTON is an Author, Playwright and Poet. His books include: THE WORLD OF CARLOS (novel); SEX AND CONFLICT (novel); HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL/BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA; SPACED OUT!(A SPACE ADVENTURE. novel); SHOWDOWN AT SUNDOWN (Western novel); PASSION AND POLITICS (novel) POETRY AND PROSE OF PASSION AND COMPASSION (collection book); SWAN SONG (novel); IT?S HUMAN NATURE (story collection); IRA FREDERICK ALDRIDGE (THE LONDON CONFLICT) (Play, non-fiction). His produced plays include: WALK IN DARKNESS (NYC); SWANSONG OF THE 11TH DAWN (NYC);IRA ALDRIDGE (THE LONDON CONFLICT), the winner of the Group theatre?s Playwriting Award, (Seattle, WA, 1987?1988); DOUBLE DARE (Theatre Festival, Washington, DC); BLACK ANTIGONE, (N.C. Drama Festival). He has had poems published in anthologies and magazines. He developed, published and edited the DC PIPELINE (Washington, DC Government employees newspaper, 40,000 monthly circulation); National Radio News Editor and Correspondent (for the DNC Presidential Campaign of 1968?Nation wide); He wrote movie and TV scripts for the U.S. Information Agency, including; APOLLO-11 MAN ON THE MOON; TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; MEDIA HORA; JULES VERNE vs. REAL FLIGHT TO THE MOON; CHICAGO-PORTRAIT OF A CITY; and many more. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literary Grant, 2004 Creative Achievement Honored Alumni Award, Univ. Northern Colorado, and a Ford Foundation Theatre Fellowship. He was an actor of Stage, Television and Motion Pictures. He played a featured role in MGM s TAKE THE HIGH GROUND, with Richard Widmark and Karl Malden (1953) and had the leading role in HARLEM DETECTIVE (the first drama series with an African-American leading role. WOR TV (1953). He graduated from the University of Northern Colorado, BA, (Greeley), and took additional writing courses at Columbia and New York Universities. The Schomburg Center For Research in Black Culture?a division of the New York Public.