The Gene Pruitt Legacy is a paperback biography of Gene Pruitt, a 73 year-old Indiana farmer with a unique approach to farming. He grew up on a true tenant farm, where he learned to love draft horses and farm animals. After high school graduation, he worked for a number of years on the original Lilly Pharmaceutical Experimental Farm helping test new animal drugs. His years with Lilly were interrupted briefly for a tour of duty with the U.S. Army's Corporal Missile Unit in Italy. Later, on his own farm, Gene Pruitt ventured into a rare specialty hog operation--the Specific Pathogen Free (SPF)...

This is the first book in Larry Kaiser's Joseph's Easel series. It is an amusing, entertaining, enlightening and important vision of the mature artist, the "artist in full." Javi Attila Gran-Cognac, the troubled hero of Kaiser's novel, risks his life, his sanity, his loves, his legacy and his fortune down in the corpse-lined trenches on the long, bloody firing line of world politics. In Joseph's Easel, the Rise of an American Picasso, a precocious child learns that his drawings have the power to cause powerful villains in the adult world the kind of problems that make them want the young...