by Tom DeWolf | Mar 2, 2008 | Books, Reviews, Inheriting the Trade, Traces of the Trade
As I continue to learn about the business end of the book world I’ve become quite intrigued (and impressed) by how publicity works and how word spreads. My publicist at Beacon Press, Leah Riviere, continues to do an amazing job of outreach to various media as...
by Tom DeWolf | Feb 27, 2008 | Appearances by Tom, Inheriting the Trade
The final stop on the first seven weeks of my book tour was coordinated by my mother. This past weekend I was at Pomona First Christian Church, the church I grew up in and where my parents have attended since before they were married there in 1951. On Friday, February...
by Tom DeWolf | Feb 26, 2008 | Appearances by Tom, Inheriting the Trade, Traces of the Trade
A couple of weeks ago I received a call from a friend of mine in Chicago, State Senator Jacqui Collins (Jacqui and I both participated in the Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University...
by Tom DeWolf | Feb 21, 2008 | Appearances by Tom, Inheriting the Trade
I was invited to speak this evening as part of the President’s Speakers Series at California State University at Monterey Bay. President Dianne Harrison asked me to participate and it was an amazing experience. I met with over 100 students this afternoon. Our...
by Tom DeWolf | Feb 18, 2008 | Books, Reviews, Inheriting the Trade
When I was in Boston last month I visited the offices of the Christian Science Monitor to be interviewed by Marjorie Kehe, the book editor for the CSM. You can now read her review of Inheriting The Trade, “An honest look at a slave-trading family’s...
by Tom DeWolf | Feb 17, 2008 | Appearances by Tom, Inheriting the Trade, Race, Oppression, Privilege, Traces of the Trade
In today’s (February 17, 2008) edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Joseph M. Torsella, the president and chief executive officer of the National Constitution Center, writes an excellent guest editorial: “The nation’s slave past.” The...
