Jon Huer

Jon Huer received his Ph.D. in sociology from UCLA in 1975 and is the author of 20 books on social criticism, art philosophy and political economy. TIME magazine called one of his books, The Dead End, “An important and brilliant book (about) America’s national death wish.” After teaching college for the last 25 years of his career at U.S. military bases around the world, he retired to Greenfield, Massachusetts where he writes bi-weekly columns on U.S. politics and culture for the Greenfield Recorder.

Tales from Vespucci is the third volume in “the Michael Brown Trilogy,” a cautionary tale in which our hero as a retired school principal travels through the Land of Vespucci. He earlier appeared as a young boy in The Green Palmers Chronicle and then later as an adult in Darwin’s Progress.