Today Dr. Merrill (Buddy) Matthews is our guest host and he’s going to have a super, busy show!
During the first hour Buddy’s guest, Demetrick Pennie, joins him in-studio. Dr. Tre Pennie shares how Blacks are taking a stand for Conservative Values. Buddy’s next guest is author Mark Stein. Mark brings us his new book, “The Presidential Fringe.” Buddy’s final next guest is financial expert Dan Pilla. They will be talking about things people should be thinking about with April 15 coming up in a month.
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Mark lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, a Reference Specialist at the Library of Congress. To any young person hoping to become a writer, he would urge them to marry someone who works at the Library of Congress.
But The Presidential Fringe also takes a look at those who would jest their way into the Oval Office, from comedians such as Will Rogers and Gracie Allen to Pat Paulsen and Stephen Colbert. Along the way, Stein shows how even seemingly zany candidates, such as “Live Forever” Jones, Vegetarian Party candidate John Maxwell, Flying Saucer Party candidate Gabriel Green, or, most recently, Vermin Supreme, provide extraordinary insights of clarity into who we were when they ran for president and how we became who we are today. Ultimately, Stein’s examination reveals that it was often precisely these fringe candidates who planted the seeds from which mainstream candidates later harvested genuine, positive change.
Written in Stein’s direct and witty style, The Presidential Fringe surveys and portrays an American landscape rife with the unlikely, unassuming, unexpected, and (in a few cases) unbalanced presidential hopefuls who, in their own way, have contributed to this nation’s founding quest to form a more perfect Union.