Rick Perlstein’s sprawling, rollicking book arrives hard on the heels of a contest of empathy-exhibitionism in which the two Democratic presidential candidates competed to see who could more ardently adore churchgoing, gun-owning, not-at-all-bitter working-class Pennsylvanians.
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Chip Jones
Charles (Chip) Jones joined The Bergman Group as editor of new media in September 2007 after more than 25 years at Virginia newspapers and magazines, including the Richmond Times-Dispatch and Virginia Business.
Working with Bergman's talented staff, Jones has helped develop Richmonleaders.com and serves as editor.
His interest in leadership stems from his professional experiences as a reporter and author, as well as his personal life growing up around dynamic decision-makers and leaders.
At the Times-Dispatch, Jones spent 14 years as a business reporter covering manufacturing and transportation, with a special focus on the U.S. airline industry and air service in Richmond. He won many state and national business writing awards.
Jones also has written extensively about military affairs, particularly the U.S. Marine Corps. He is the son of a career Marine-the late Lt. Gen. William K. Jones-and his first cousin, Gen. James L. Jones became Commandant of the Marine Corps and later Supreme Allied Commander Europe and NATO.
His first book-Boys of '67: From Vietnam to Iraq, the Extraordinary Story of a Few Good Men -was named the top biography of 2006 by the Military Writers Society of America. The book chronicles the careers and combat of Jones' cousin and other prominent members of the Marine Corps' Basic School class of April 5, 1967.
Jones is currently writing his second book- Red, White or Yellow? The Military and Media at War in Iraq -about news coverage of the war. He spent two weeks last summer with the Marines at Camp Fallujah, Iraq, and visited the U.S. military command in Baghdad. The book will be published in September, 2008 by Stackpole Books.
Jones is a 1974 graduate of the University of Kansas, where he earned a bachelor's degree in English and became a certified high school English teacher. In 1989, he earned a master's degree in English from Hollins College.
He is married to his high school sweetheart, Deborah White Jones, a special education teacher in the Henrico County schools and church music leader. They have three college-age children. Jones is active in prison ministry and plays guitar and mandolin in his wife's musical group at St. Matthias' Episcopal Church.
All Articles by Chip Jones
Is Nixon THE One?
Guantanamo’s Long Shadow on U.S. Foreign Policy
WASHINGTON — When the Pentagon announced in March that Maj. Gen. Jay W. Hood would become the senior American officer based in Pakistan, it reflected the military’s aim to put a crisis-tested veteran in a critical job at a pivotal time in the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
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Big TV’s Big Secret: Ignoring Pentagon’s Propaganda Program
Even with countless media outlets available these days, a Sunday New York Times cover story could always be counted on to send a jolt through the television news cycle. But apparently that’s no longer the case.
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Mark Your Calendars: May 20 is Obama’s (Official) Victory Party
Not long after the polls close in the May 20 Kentucky and Oregon primaries, Barack Obama plans to declare victory in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Barack Works the House
In the great hunt for superdelegates, there’s no better place to look than the floor of the House, and Senator Barack Obama dove right into a sea of them on Thursday morning, shaking hands, clapping backs, doling out hugs and even doing a little curtsy before Representative John M. Spratt Jr. of South Carolina, the […]