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Jack Quinn
Biography
Jack held a variety of unusual jobs after graduating from high school in Johnstown, Pennsylvania including a job as a translator in a vacation resort in Spain, a stint in the Swedish Merchant Marine, and another as a civilian electrician working for the British Army on the Rhine in Hannover, Germany. When he returned to the U.S., he worked his way through Arizona State University as a disk jockey and then spent a year in graduate school studying German literature at the University of Washington in Seattle. Jack returned to Phoenix where he supervised a quality control department at Motorola Semiconductors before teaching communications and digital electronics for eight years at the Phoenix campus of DeVry University. From DeVry he went to work for In-Stat in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1990, where he began the company's original microprocessor service. Jack left In-Stat in 1992 to found Micrologic Research. After retirement in 2011, he completed four years of undergraduate studies in the French language, which included one year at Stendhal University in Grenoble, France.
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Running for President, Stories
by Jack Quinn
Price:
Free!
Words: 25,680.
Language:
American English.
Published: May 2, 2016
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Categories:
Fiction » Biographical
A collection of three short stories based on the life of the fictional psychotic presidential candidate Jason Wilder. The stories portray him as a university student, as a candidate for governor of Arizona, and as the choice of the fabulously rich Hogson Brothers for the office of president of the United States. Together the stories form a satire on today's dysfunctional presidential politics.