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Robert Vaughan
Bio: Writing under his own name and 25 pen names, Robert Vaughan has authored over 200 books in every genre but Science Fiction. He won the 1977 Porgie Award (Best Paperback Original) for The Power and the Pride. In 1973 The Valkyrie Mandate was nominated by its publisher, Simon & Schuster, for the Pulitzer Prize. Vaughan is a frequent speaker at seminars and at high schools and colleges. He has also hosted three television talk shows: Eyewitness Magazine, on WAVY TV in Portsmouth, Virginia, Tidewater A.M., on WHBQ TV in Hampton, Virginia, and This Week in Books on the TEMPO Cable Television Network. In addition, he hosted a cooking show at Phoenix at Mid-day on KHPO TV in Phoenix, Arizona. Vaughan is a retired Army Warrant Officer (CW-3) with three tours in Vietnam where he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with the V for valor, the Bronze Star, the Distinguished Service Medal, and the Purple Heart. He was a helicopter pilot and a maintenance and supply officer. He was also an instructor and Chief of the Aviation Maintenance Officers' Course at Fort Eustis, Virginia. During his military career, Vaughan was a participant in many of the 20th century's most significant events.
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The American Chronicles: Decade One Dawn of the Century [MultiFormat]
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In Volume One of The American Chronicles, Robert Vaughan panoramically evokes America at the beginning of the Twentieth century, poised on the brink of greatness and fraught with the tumult of rapid change. A time of robber-baron industrialists and rapid territorial expansion both at home and abroad, the new music called "ragtime" is the soundtrack for a confident nation of ambitious dreamers. It is 1904 and the nation's eyes are on the St.Louis World's Fair, which features an astounding variety... more info>> (Published: 1992)
Words: 134242 - Reading Time: 383-536 min.
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Cold War [MultiFormat]
by Robert Vaughan
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The launch of Sputnik. Rock 'n' roll fever. The struggle for civil rights. Robert Vaughan's seventh volume of the American Chronicles has America entering the fifties amidst the fright of a cold war with Russia and a fiery war in Korea. Prizewinning war correspondent Shaylin McKay and African-American war hero Travis Jackson have a date with destiny. Back home, sexy screen siren Marcella Mills and Hollywood's leading lady Demaris Hunter find both their careers and their emotions harnessed to the... more info>> (Published: 1992)
Words: 111358 - Reading Time: 318-445 min.
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Flower Children [MultiFormat]
by Robert Vaughan
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The 1960's have gone down in history as a decade of social and political upheavals, when Americans grappled with the moral dilemmas and social divisions caused by the Vietnam war, the struggle for civil rights, and the radicalism of the nation's youth. In the ninth volume of Robert Vaughan's stunning American Chronicles, a panoramic picture of the American experience unfolds from the perspective of Americans from all walks of life. Cocky and charismatic Bob Parker courts death every day, pilotin... more info>> (Published: 1996)
Words: 99771 - Reading Time: 285-399 min.
Category: Historical Fiction
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Hard Times [MultiFormat]
by Robert Vaughan
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The stock Market crash of 1929 abruptly thrusts the nation into chaos, as unemployed people grow more desperate for a livelihood. As nearly every sector of the economy collapses and dust storms rage in the West, only the most determined can make it. While desperation and despair wrack the nation, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal continues to inspire hope in some but arouses cynicism in others. Wealthy and handsome John Canfield refuses to disallow his patriotism in the face of disaster. He embarks ... more info>> (Published: 1993)
Words: 121566 - Reading Time: 347-486 min.
Category: Alternate History
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Hawke: Ride With the Devil [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Robert Vaughan
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 Mason Hawke has a dark past that he's trying to forget, but now he must choose between wealth and power or saving a town that's under the rule of a corrupt lawman. Mason Hawke emerged from war a scarred man, a man unable to return to a life of power and privilege. His only way out is to start his life anew, concealing his past from those he encounters. But things don't always go according to plan, which Mason finds out when he stops in a town where he knows the local sheriff, a man who has the t... more info>>
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Hawke: Showdown at Dead End Canyon [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
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There's no peace for Mason Hawke from the ghosts of his past. A drifter and a loner, he's not looking for trouble when he rides into Wyoming Territory--but it's waiting for him nonetheless. Coming to the rescue of a wealthy landowner's daughter who was kidnapped by a pair of inept outlaws, Hawke finds himself an unlikely hero in a town called Green River. But his unsought celebrity has earned him some powerful enemies, including a land-hungry lady with a crooked official in her pocket and a ruth... more info>>
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Hawke: The King Hill War [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
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The memory of all the good men he killed during the Civil War still haunts former Captain Mason Hawke--fathers, sons, brothers, and husbands, who just happened to be wearing Union blue. Now only bad men can enflame his killing rage. A drifter who makes his living playing piano in frontier saloons, Hawke has come to a blood-soaked corner of Idaho, answering a desperate call for help from a woman he once loved. War is ripping King Hill apart--born of the ruthless greed of wealthy cattlemen--and it... more info>>
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Hawke: The Law of a Fast Gun [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
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A man haunted and changed by war--whose fingers are equally skilled in the arts of music and death--Mason Hawke has found a new home in Braggadocio, Nebraska. But a dustup in the local saloon has forced his hand, and now two bodies lie lifeless on the dirty floor--a situation an unscrupulous cattleman plans to use to his advantage. Like Hawke, Clint Jessup is running from his past. But Jessup's sins turned him hard and greedy?and he's willing to drain bone dry a town that's trying to build a fut... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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Hawke: Vendetta Trail [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
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Mason Hawke just wants to be left alone. Born with a musician's hands, Hawke has spent the past decade using his lightning-quick fingers to deal death instead of tunes, moving from one town to the next hoping to mute the voices of the dead that continually ring in his ears. But while playing piano in a two-bit saloon in Nebraska, Hawke witnesses a couple of roughnecks gun down a friend of his, and a few seconds later, the killer falls, by Hawke's hand. To honor his dead friend, Hawke travels to ... more info>>
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Over There [MultiFormat]
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Volume two of Robert Vaughan's stunning American Chronicles follows the tumult of American during the second decade of the twentieth century. The indestructible Titanic goes down in the cold arctic sea, millions of immigrants flood into the country, a bloody worker's revolution occurs in Russia, and in Sarajevo an assassination quickly ignites the flames of the First World War. It is 1912, and the Lady Lucinda Chetwynd-Dunleigh can hear the final strains of the ship's orchestra as the famous Tit... more info>> (Published: 1992)
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Portals of Hell [MultiFormat]
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This fifth volume of Robert Vaughan's American Chronicles follows America's tumultuous and surprising journey through the 1940's, as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor thrusts the nation into the Second World War. Hitler's army ravages Europe, and an explosion of the first nuclear warhead in Los Alamos plunges the world into the danger of the nuclear age. Beautiful journalist Shaylin McKay risks her life reporting from the battle front, only to find she has fallen in love with a soldier in comb... more info>> (Published: 1993)
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The Iron Curtain [MultiFormat]
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Volume six of Robert Vaughan's American Chronicles begins with the emergence of a new America from the fiery furor of World War II, an America ready and eager to grasp the future. But the country cannot escape the shadows of the past horrors nor the obligation to the brave souls who fought for liberty and peace. As the defeated Germany faces her fate at Nuremberg and a Red scare makes its mark in every household, stories of courage, celebration, and the realization of destinies take place. Holoc... more info>> (Published: 1994)
Words: 111604 - Reading Time: 318-446 min.
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The Lost Generation [MultiFormat]
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In this, the third, explosive volume of Robert Vaughan's AMERICAN CHRONICLES, prohibition and gangland wars define the era. The 1920s were perhaps the most exciting and glamorous decade of the century, as America leaves behind the strife and deprivations of war, while the Jazz Age brings the young, dissolute, and decadent into the smoky interiors of basement speakeasies. Idealistic young journalist Kendra Mills risks her career--and her life--to expose the criminal underside of American society.... more info>> (Published: 1992)
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The New Frontier [MultiFormat]
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Vietnam. The Bay of Pigs. A November afternoon in Dallas pierced by gunshots. Robert Vaughan's eighth title in the American Chronicles series opens with the calamitous changes that define a generation and bid good-bye to innocence. With the charismatic young president in office, idealism and optimism run free, the youths of America believe in all possibilities. Deon Booker, a proud African-American, joins Mississippi's Freedom Riders on an unforgettable journey to a shocking revelation. His comp... more info>> (Published: 1995)
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