Public Service Exemplars: “A Finer Spirit of Hope and Achievement”: Allen Dulles
A chapter of my upcoming book Public Service Exemplars: “A Finer Spirit of Hope and Achievement” is devoted to Allen Welsh Dulles. Dulles...
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Mike Martinez
- Sep 17
- 6 min
Public Service Exemplars: “A Finer Spirit of Hope and Achievement”: Ralph Bunche
Ralph Johnson Bunche was a giant figure in the field of American foreign policy. As a diplomat who worked in multiple agencies, he proved...
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Mike Martinez
- Sep 1
- 7 min
Public Service Exemplars: “A Finer Spirit of Hope and Achievement”: Alice Hamilton
Chapter 8 of my upcoming book Public Service Exemplars: “A Finer Spirit of Hope and Achievement” portrays a pioneering health advocate,...
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Mike Martinez
- Aug 16
- 8 min
Public Service Exemplars: “A Finer Spirit of Hope and Achievement”: Robert Moses
Robert Moses was a public servant who spent his professional career in metropolitan New York overseeing public works projects such as the...
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Mike Martinez
- Jul 31
- 5 min
An Update on My Writing Projects
Every summer since I initiated my first blog in July 2011, I have provided an update on my writing projects. Thus, here is my latest...
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Mike Martinez
- Jul 15
- 9 min
Public Service Exemplars: “A Finer Spirit of Hope and Achievement”: David Lilienthal
David Eli Lilienthal dedicated 19 years of his life to government service, first as director of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the...
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Mike Martinez
- Jun 30
- 11 min
Public Service Exemplars: “A Finer Spirit of Hope and Achievement”: Leslie Groves
A chapter in my upcoming book Public Service Exemplars: “A Finer Spirit of Hope and Achievement” is devoted to Lieutenant General Leslie...
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Mike Martinez
- Jun 15
- 4 min
New Book--Libertines: American Political Sex Scandals from Alexander Hamilton to Donald Trump
I am pleased to announce the publication of my 16th book, Libertines: American Political Sex Scandals from Alexander Hamilton to Donald...
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Mike Martinez
- May 29
- 2 min
New Publication on Confederate Symbols
In March 2022, my longtime friend and co-author, M. Christine Cagle, and I published an article titled “Reexamining Confederate Symbols...
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Mike Martinez
- May 15
- 5 min
Public Service Exemplars: “A Finer Spirit of Hope and Achievement”: Harold Ickes
Harold LeClair Ickes was a progressive Midwestern Republican politician who became the United States secretary of the interior during...
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Mike Martinez
- Apr 20
- 4 min
Public Service Exemplars: A Finer Spirit of Hope and Achievement: Frances Perkins
Frances Coralie Perkins was a trailblazer, the first woman to serve in an American president’s cabinet. She was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s...
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Mike Martinez
- Mar 31
- 10 min
A German Interlude; or Ass-Kicking the Ugly American
For this blog, I dip back into the archives. This entry, dated September 8, 2011, summarizes my harrowing experience delivering a paper...
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Mike Martinez
- Mar 10
- 6 min
Loving and Losing Daisy (from the archives)
I started writing my blog in July 2011. Sometimes I look back at the archives and reprint my “greatest hits” from the vault. This...
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Mike Martinez
- Feb 25
- 7 min
Public Service Exemplars: A Finer Spirit of Hope and Achievement: Charles G. Dawes
Charles Gates Dawes is not well known in the twenty-first century, but in his time, he was an influential figure in the Republican Party...
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Mike Martinez
- Feb 1
- 9 min
Public Service Exemplars: A Finer Spirit of Hope and Achievement: Montgomery C. Meigs
Beginning with this post, I will outline key figures from my work-in-progress, Public Service Exemplars: “A Finer Spirit of Hope and...
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Mike Martinez
- Jan 16
- 2 min
Public Service Exemplars: “A Finer Spirit of Hope and Achievement”
In August 2021, I signed a book contract with Routledge, an academic publisher from Great Britain and an imprint of the Taylor & Francis...
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Mike Martinez
- Jan 1
- 2 min
The Writing Process, Part VII: Concluding Thoughts on Book Writing
To conclude this series on writing a book—and to conclude 2021, for that matter—I offer final thoughts on the subject. Many folks have...
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Mike Martinez
- Dec 19, 2021
- 3 min
The Writing Process, Part VI: A Question of Talent
Let us talk of talent, you and I--of writing talent. It’s a touchy subject, I know, but we must speak of it as part of this series. This...
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Mike Martinez
- Nov 26, 2021
- 4 min
The Writing Process, Part V: Writing a Non-Fiction Book
This is my fifth post in a series on writing a non-fiction book. I have discussed selecting a topic, searching for a publisher,...
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Mike Martinez
- Oct 31, 2021
- 4 min
The Writing Process, Part IV: Researching a Non-Fiction Book
This is my fourth posting on the writing process. I have discussed how to select a book topic (Part I), the steps in searching for a...
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