TREE HOUSE TALES is a collection of short fiction & non-fiction written between 1983 & 2014. It was never a planned literary work nor was it a proto-collection awaiting critical mass. It or rather they were files saved in a common folder, once manila & now digital. Short stories, anecdotes, art, poetry and "beats-mes" kept company for as much as 30 years-all that time left to their own devices. Works which originally had little in common--besides being file neighbors--began communicating in ways humans cannot begin to understand. They found they had commonalities they never guessed, not just...

This unique and monumental biography not only restores a central figure to history, it makes the crucial events he shaped accessible to a broader readership and gives contemporary readers a backdrop for understanding the fraught United States� Russia relationship that still exists today.