George Pendle, Author . Harcourt $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-15-100997-8
Pendle vividly tells the story of a mysterious and forgotten man who embodied the contradictions of his time. Throughout the 1930s, John Whiteside Parsons (1914–1952) was a pioneer of rocket science, a fixture at Caltech with an uncanny...
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George Pendle, Author . Three Rivers $13.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-307-33962-1
America's 13th president has often been the subject of humor, and this bogus biography by Pendle (Strange Angels: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
) is no exception. Fillmore was not a "blundering, pompous,...
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George Pendle, Author . Three Rivers $13.95 (250p) ISBN 978-0-307-39560-3
Pendle turns out a wicked satire of death in this faux autobiography. Death, the spawn of Sin and Satan, begins his story at the dawn of creation, before the beginning of God's newest project, Earth. With only a bit of “the Darkness from...
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