John Wheeler (1944-2010) was an Army officer, consultant, lawyer, chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, senior planner for Amtrak, and CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. He also was a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, a special assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, as well as serving as a presidential aide to the Ronald Reagan, George H.W. and George W. Bush administrations. Wheeler was a graduate from West Point, Harvard, and Yale.]]> Rex Weiner, a native of Brooklyn, New York, is a writer, editor, publisher, and journalist based in Los Angeles and Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, MX. Weiner began his journalism career in the underground press of the late 1960s and is a co-founding editor of High Times magazine. His articles have appeared in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Paris Review, LA Magazine and Capital & Main. He is Executive Director and co-founder of the Todos Santos Writers Workshop, where he teaches creative writing. With Deanne Stillman, he is co-author of The Woodstock Census: Nationwide Survey of the Sixties Generation (Viking Press).]]> A Generation Awakes: Young Americans for Freedom and the Creation of the Conservative Movement. Dr. Thorburn is a graduate of Tufts University and Penn State and holds a PhD in political science from the University of Maryland.]]> The Mekong River and The Struggle for Indochina: Water, War, and Peace.]]> Passion, Betrayal, and Revolution in Colonial Saigon: The Memoirs of Bao Luong, Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution, and Millenarianism and Peasant Politics in Vietnam.]]> Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from New York University.]]> Musician, writer, filmmaker and activist Michael Simmons was dubbed “The Father Of Country Punk” by Creem magazine in the 1970s. He was an editor of the National Lampoon in the ’80s where he wrote the popular column “Drinking Tips And Other War Stories” and won an LA Press Club Award in the ’90s for his investigative journalism for the LA Weekly. He has written for MOJO, Rolling Stone, Penthouse, LA Weekly, The New York Times, LA Times, High Times, Artillery, CounterPunch, The Rag Blog, The Progressive and Dangerous Minds and has scribed liner notes for Bob Dylan, Michael Bloomfield, Phil Ochs, Kris Kristofferson, Mose Allison, Kinky Friedman, Arthur Lee & Love and Paul Krassner. He wrote and co-produced the documentary The Real Rocky about boxer Chuck Wepner.]]>