I'm a nonfiction writer based in Chicago. My new book Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German American Bund tells the true story of a pro-Nazi movement that swept the United States in the 1930s. Swastika Nation is now available from St. Martin's Press. It's earned great reviews from The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Publishers Weekly, and many other publications.

I've also author of Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing, the true story of the first mass murder at an American public school on May 18,1927 in the small Michigan town of Bath. The book is published by University of Michigan Press. Bath Massacre was honored as a Notable Book by the State Library of Michigan.

Earlier work includes Hollywood on Lake Michigan: 100 Years of Chicago and the Movies, The Hoofs and Guns of the Storm: Chicago's Civil War Connections, and "The Movies Are" Carl Sandburg's Film Reviews & Essays, 1920-1927.

When it comes to philosophy, I follow the words of notable sage Groucho Marx: “I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.”