Location: United States
Member Since: May 27, 2008

Kenneth Crowe


Biography

Kenneth C. Crowe was a labor reporter at Newsday and New York Newsday from 1976 to 1999. He is the author of COLLISION/HOW THE RANK AND FILE TOOK BACK THE TEAMSTERS. Published by Scribner's in 1993, COLLISION tells the story of the Teamsters' rank and file reform movement, culminating in the election of Ron Carey as president of the union.
Crowe won an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship in 1974 to study foreign investment in the United States. In 1978, Doubleday published AMERICA FOR SALE, Crowe's book on foreign investment in the United States.
Crowe was a member of the Newsday investigative team whose work won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal.

Where to find Kenneth Crowe online

Website: http://kennethccrowe.com
Blog: http://kennethcrowe.blogspot.com

Where to buy in print

http://www.amazon.com/Jynx-Kenneth-C-Crowe/dp/1434880885/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254272961&sr=8-1

Books

The Absconder    by Kenneth Crowe
Price: $2.99 USD. 89870 words. Published on July 5, 2011. Fiction.
What is heaven? Chris asked. Heaven is a glass of clear cold water, a sunset, a good roll in bed, walking free through fields of wheat. Heaven is in a moment. Hell is a longer process: boredom, hatred, lingering fear, hunger for food, for sex, for freedom. Hell is eternity in a prison cell. I’ve been to hell; I’m never going back. That was one of the few certainties Chris harbored.
The Truckers    by Kenneth Crowe
Price: $2.99 USD. 86740 words. Published on October 21, 2010. Fiction.
THE TRUCKERS. Tommy Kerrigan and Helmut Knall are uneasy allies dedicated to transforming the nation’s largest union, the Truckers International Union, into a progressive force capable of dragging the American labor movement out of the quagmire that is sucking it under. Tommy emerges as a legendary hero experiencing great triumphs and tragedy.
The Hero    by Kenneth Crowe
Price: Free! 70160 words. Published on June 2, 2010. Fiction.
Ryan Garrity, winner of two Silver Stars, lost an eye and his dream of an Army career on a battlefield in Korea while leading a selected band of cowards in an experimental unit into combat. The soldier who saved his life also carried three other seriously wounded comrades to safety, but strangely his nomination for a Medal of Honor was squelched. In delving into the reason why, Ryan discovers th
Oooeelie    by Kenneth Crowe
Price: $2.99 USD. 89990 words. Published on January 4, 2010. Fiction.
The Oooeelie Myth: A dog, the reincarnation of a canine being whose space ship crash-landed on earth tens of thousands of years ago and taught humans to speak, is still trying to find his way home to Sirius in the Twentieth Century.
The Dream Dancer    by Kenneth Crowe
Price: Free! 87760 words. Published on November 2, 2009. Fiction.
The Dream Dancer: A Native American hero’s journey in which the monster is a U.S. Congressman and the netherworld is a Pennsylvania prison.
The Jynx    by Kenneth Crowe
Price: Free! 83140 words. Published on May 27, 2008. Fiction.
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THE JYNX is a novel of clamming, art, Swiftboat politics, and revenge in the age of Karl Rove. The protagonist of THE JYNX is a Long Island clammer, barely surviving in a dying industry, whose dream is to become a successful wood sculptor. A political operative is the protagonist’s inspiration for The Jynx, a sculpture which advances his career and turns her into a vengeful enemy.

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