Jack Fleming

Thinking Places: Where Great Ideas Were Born Jack Fleming

Publisher Marketing: For centuries creative people in all fields have had a thinking place - a private retreat where they have worked regularly, hoping to find inspiration. The authors have chosen thirty-one creative people who vaulted from their thinking places to well-deserved fame or international recognition. These special retreats varied from architectural jewels to humble huts to chosen sites in nature itself. George Bernard Shaw's was a simple garden hut with one window and one door - and a turntable underneath. Shaw captured the prevailing sunlight with a push and a turn. In their journeys, Carolyn and Jack Fleming discovered that many thinking places still seem to exude an atmosphere of creativity. The Flemings have recorded the details of their searches for you, the reader to duplicate - in reality or in imagination. In their travels the authors discovered much little known information, which they have included in sprightly written vignettes. What was Charles Dickens' long kept secret? What beloved figure did Life magazine proclaim "the unofficial president of the United States"? Who received what the U. S. Patent office states is the most valuable patent ever issued? What two leading educators rose from slavery and extreme poverty to world-wide fame? The reader will discover that the thirty-one people selected were as intriguing as they were creative. Besides descriptive journeys, vignettes and thinking places, the reader will also receive thirty-one instances of lagniappe, a Cajun word for "a little something extra." Read Thinking Places and see what something extra may be in store for you. Review Citations: BlueInk Review 06/10/2014 (EAN 9781425125851, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Fleming, Jack After discharge from the U. S. military, Fleming went to work as a commodity broker where he penned a weekly column on interest rate futures and precious metals and began, around the same time, a forty year study of classical antiquity with a specialty in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian origins. A second volume of the adventures of Reuben Gage and more essays on finance and economics are in the works. Contributor Bio:  Fleming, Carolyn Carolyn Fleming was born in Forsyth, Georgia where her Alexander family had lived for more than 100 years. She and her husband, Jack, won The Adclia Rosaco Award for the book and lyrics of Seaplane, a musical about early flight, written with noted composer Allen Pote. The three also collaborated on Imagination!, a musical/whimsical about Robert Louis Stevenson and the musical Bahia de Panzacola. She is the author of Pensacola Holidays and Democracy Means Sharing. Memory's Feast is a work in progress. She lives in Pensacola, Florida. Contributor Bio:  Engel, Elliot Elliot Engel has taught at the University of North Carolina, North Carolina State University, and Duke University. He earned his MA and PhD as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at UCLA, where he won the Outstanding Teacher Award. He has written ten books, and his mini-lecture series on Charles Dickens ran on PBS stations around the country. His articles have appeared in numerous newspapers and national magazines, including Newsweek. He has lectured throughout the United States and on every continent.