EAMON MCCARTHY EARLS
ABOUT ME
I am an author, public speaker, and lawyer in training. I first started writing books in 2010 and since that time I have delivered hundreds of talks for libraries, schools, and organizations.
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Educated in geology and history at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, I returned to my home community of Franklin, Massachusetts where I served two terms as an elected Town Councilor. I am now completing a J.D. at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia.
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During my time in law school I gained valuable experience all throughout the legal field doing six different internships with a federal judge, state supreme court justice, U.S. Attorney's office, legal advocacy organization, civil law firm, and the U.S. House of Representatives.
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My Books
From 1895 to 1908, one of the largest civil engineering projects in New England history transformed four Massachusetts towns (Clinton, Sterling, Boylston, and West Boylston) creating Boston's first truly modern water supply system -- the Wachusett Reservoir and aqueduct. This book, for the first time, tells the story of this engineering marvel as well the human dramas of the project: strikes, murders, and the deaths of more than 30 workers.
On a hot summer evening, a few weeks ahead of typhoon season, the prosperous island nation of Taiwan suddenly goes dark and silent. No military chatter, no stock trades, no late night over the phone breakups. The night is lit only by the fires kindled by Chinese bombs.
A massive surprise attack in East Asia leaves America—sole superpower for over 30 years—reeling and trying to adjust. In this new battle of cyberweapons, covert ops, hired guns, and false flag attacks, veteran officers and fresh recruits are the only ones who will decide whether the US fades or fights.
With an east wind blowing, war in the Pacific is only a matter of time…
The story of America told through the life of a New England town from prehistoric times to the present day. Anarchists, entrepreneurs, a gold rush, and a hard fought teacher's strike are just the tip of the iceberg...
Devastating winds, pounding waves, record tidal surges and floods of nearly Biblical proportions. This was the "Twisted Sisters"--the four named storms, Carol, Edna, Connie, and Diane--that hammered New England and the Northeast, all in a period of just 12 months!
Nearly forgotten amidst the calamities of the Cold War era, the Twisted Sisters finally get their due, here, in a single comprehensive story that encompasses all four storms and captures the voices of victims, rescuers, scientists and politicians--as they came to grip with nature's unprecedented fury. One survivor wondered, "how could this happen? Nothing like this ever happened before." Today, despite the massive seawalls and flood control projects built in the wake of the Twisted Sisters, the question is--will it happen again?
Missiles in Vermont? Communists in New Hampshire? The largest air base in the world in Maine? Spy ships in Long Island Sound? It might seem absurd, but over 30 years after the end of the Cold War, it’s time to take a look at New England when the region was on the front lines of a global conflict.
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So recent and yet so distant,
this last great conflict brought about an already very alien world of mega-bases, nuclear arsenals, missile silos, and high-tech development that helped the US to fight...and ultimately triumph while keeping the Cold War from getting hot.
Bill Kearns is an unassuming, church-going, local character in Quinebaug, a sleepy, Central Massachusetts manufacturing town. A postman by profession, Bill thinks that he knows his town, as well as he knows his Church, and his family, until the hot summer of 1920. Overnight, Bill steps out of his well-worn walking shoes, into the gum shoes of an amateur detective, as "Black Hand" anarchists seem hell-bent on causing trouble in his town. The discoveries he makes about his town, and himself, help save the day and pave the way for a new profession- news correspondent for the local paper. A tenacious Kearns returns to investigate a "witching hour" murder, on a remote road, in 1932; confronting the richest man within miles for the sake of a good story, and a grieving farm family.