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John Chuckman is former chief economist for a large Canadian oil company. He has many interests and is a lifelong student of history. He writes with a passionate desire for honesty, the rule of reason, and concern for human decency. John regards it as a badge of honor to have left the United States as a poor young man from the South Side of Chicago when the country embarked on the pointless murder of something like 3 million Vietnamese in their own land because they embraced the wrong economic loyalties. He lives in Canada, which he is fond of calling “the peaceable kingdom.”
John’s writing appears regularly on many Internet sites. He has been translated into at least ten languages and has been regularly translated into Italian and Spanish. Several of his essays have been published in book collections, including two college texts. He has published a book, The Decline of the American Empire and the Rise of China as a Global Power, published by Constable and Robinson, London. John also writes book reviews.
Apart from his writing since retiring from the oil industry, John has taught university courses in economics, done a good deal of private tutoring, served as a professional newspaper restaurant reviewer (he likes cooking), followed his favorite hobby of photography, and created a popular family of image blogs on the Internet.
John may be reached directly at: formersouthsideboy@gmail.com
SOME INTERNET SITES FROM JOHN CHUCKMAN:
CHUCKMAN'S PLACES ON WORDPRESS: FEATURING THE BELOVED URBAN VILLAGE OF SOUTH SHORE CHICAGO
CHUCKMAN'S PHOTOS ON WORDPRESS: CHICAGO NOSTALGIA AND MEMORABILIA
CHUCKMAN'S PHOTOS ON WORDPRESS: TORONTO NOSTALGIA
CHUCKMAN’S MONTREAL
CHUCKMAN'S PHOTOS ON WORD PRESS
CHUCKMAN'S KODACHROMES ON WORDPRESS: JOHN AND BOBBY LONG AGO
CHUCKMAN'S PORT STANLEY
CHUCKMAN'S BAYFIELD
CHUCKMAN'S GODERICH
CHUCKMAN'S ILES DE LA MADELEINE (MAGDALEN ISLANDS)
CHUCKMAN'S ART
CHUCKMAN'S ROBOTS
CHUCKMAN'S GALLERY OF GROTESQUES
CHUCKMAN'S CARTOON COMMENTS
CHUCKMAN'S PHOTOS ON WORDPRESS: 1920s ARCADE CARD BEAUTIES – THEIR CHARM AND GRACE AND WHIMSY
CHUCKMAN'S WORDS ON WORDPRESS: POLITICAL ESSAYS
CHUCKMAN'S WORDS ON WORDPRESS: COMMENTS FROM THE WORLD'S PRESS
CHUCKMAN'S MISCELLANEA OF WORDS
CHUCKMAN'S NON-SPORTS TRADING CARDS OF THE 1950S VOLUME 01 (OF 4 VOLUMES)