Trilogy: Three True Stories of Scoundrels and Schemers
By Peggy Adler
Read by Peter Coyote
Unabridged
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3 Formats: CD
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3 Formats: Library CD
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3 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9798874747039
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ISBN: 9798874747022
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ISBN: 9798874747046
| Runtime: | 1.15 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Social Science |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Winner of the IPPY Award for Best Nonfiction Audiobook
In 1991, Peggy Adler, author of Trilogy: Three True Stories of Scoundrels and Schemers, was retained by self-proclaimed CIA agent, arms dealer and money launderer, Richard Brenneke, to co-author his autobiography. She soon discovered evidence in his files contradicting claims regarding his presence at October Surprise conspiracy meetings and went on to out Brenneke as a con artist in a February 1992 article in the Village Voice. Adler then researched a series of additional articles for the “Voice", which went on to prove that the so-called “October Surprise” was a hoax. In mid-1992, upon learning that the United States House of Representatives had created a Task Force to Investigate Certain Allegations Concerning the Holding of American Hostages by Iran in 1980, which would be investigating whether or not there actually had been an “October Surprise”, she turned over to them the seventy cartons of documents she’d hauled east from Brenneke’s home in Portland, Oregon, in order to write his memoirs. Subsequently, she worked as a consultant to the Task Force and assisted in drafting and editing the Brenneke section of their final report. Chapter one of this book recounts the Brenneke story, from 1973 forward, including her own odyssey with this scoundrel. Chapter two reveals how Oliver North and Richard Secord’s Iran-Contra pal, Albert Hakim, was well aware that it was possible to get money out of a Swiss bank account without ever being a signatory – for he’d facilitated just that, years before. And Chapter three traces Roger Ailes relationship to the Willie Horton commercial that helped sink George Dukakis’ hope for the presidency. Additionally, the book is laden with all the necessary documentation to back up what Adler has written.
Author
Author Bio: Peggy Adler
The audiobook version of Peggy Adler’s most recent title, Trilogy: Three True Stories of Scoundrels and Schemers, narrated by Peter Coyote, has won gold medals in two prestigious literary competitions. First in the Independent Publisher Book Awards competition and then in the Electronic Literature Awards Competition. Prior to Trilogy, she authored the historical biography, Pallenberg Wonder Bears - From the Beginning and the award winning pictorial history titled, Images of America CLINTON. Decades earlier, in the 1960s and 70s, she authored and illustrated five titles for New York City publishers (John Day & Franklin Watts), which went out of print in the mid-1980s—and were republished in two volumes in 2023 by BearManor Media. Furthermore, she’s illustrated two dozen others and provided art for the Bronx Zoo, the Humane Society of the United States, Little, Brown & Company, the Journal of Theoretical Biology, the Journal of Algebra, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and World Scientific Publishing. Peggy also coordinated the 1969 world premiere of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for 20th Century Fox and worked as a consultant for the US House of Representatives’ October Surprise Task Force, where according to Michael Zeldin, their Deputy Majority Counsel, her work “met and exceeded every expectation.” Previous to winning the 2024 gold medals for Trilogy, her book Images of America CLINTON was named “Best Research Publication” by the Connecticut Society of Genealogists. And in 2017, Marquis Who’s Who presented her with their Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. Other honors include the Association of Former Intelligence Officer’s General Richard G. Stilwell Award and the Duck Island Yacht Club’s Corinthian Award. An active member of each community in which she’s ever lived, she spent eight years as a Clinton, CT Police Commissioner and is presently Chairman of the town’s Historic District Commission.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Social Science |
| Runtime: | 1.15 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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