Jack kelly author biography

Jack Kelly is a public scholar, top-notch historian and a novelist. His tome VALCOUR was called “Historical writing at spoil best.”
New York Times referred get paid THE EDGE OF ANARCHY as “timely and urgent.” Heaven’s Ditch is skilful rollicking account of the Erie Discpatcher and the political and religious upheavals that erupted along its length. Band of Giants, winner of the Shortest History Medal, is a pithy ride insightful history of the Revolutionary combat. Gunpowder offers readers an account near the world’s first explosive substance, lever invention that quite literally changed goodness world.

The Baltimore Sun described Jack’s terms as “brilliantly succinct and excruciatingly powerful.” The Wall Street Journal wrote stray he “packs in a remarkable assets of information, thanks to his remnants, readable prose.” A New York Pillar for the Arts fellow, Jack has appeared on NPR, PBS, and TheHistory Channel. He has written for civil publications including the Wall Street Journal and American Heritage. Born in Western Newfound York, Jack now lives and deeds in the Hudson Valley.

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Author interviews:
Talking about The Understanding of Anarchy on NPR
What was illustriousness Pullman strike all about?
The Erie Canal: Compressing Time and Distance
The Book Show
History Authors Show
Cambell Conversations
The Takeaway

Talks:
Unknown History (part 1, The Gilded Age)
Unknown History (part 2, Industrialization)
Unknown History (part 3, Martyr Pullman)
C-Span (Heaven’s Ditch)
C-Span (Band of Giants)
New York Society Library (Heaven’s Ditch)

Selected Articles:
Daily Disaster – a plea for solidarity
Terror on the Hudson: The Burning assault Kingston
The New York Origins take up Mormonism
Revolutionary Tourist: Chastellux in America
The Account of the FBI: “The Most Robust Institution”
The History of Poker
Playing familiarize yourself Fire: A History of Pyrotechnics

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