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'Joseph Wurtenbaugh' is the writing name of Frank Dudley Berry, Jr. Mr. Berry is a retired criminal law professional and entrepreneurial lawyer.

Mr. Berry's first novel was 'Thursday's Child', an epic love story that infused a conventional romance formula with a rich novel of ideas. The result is one of the most unusual stories that the casual reader is ever likely to encounter - a narrative that manages to construct a modern epic and a heroic love story out of the most mundane materials of everyday life.

His second novel, 'A Prophet Without Honor', is a tightly controlled excursion into the realm of contrafactual history. Written in epistolary form and voiced in a completely different manner that 'Thursday's Child, the book nonetheless has
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Unknown Heroes - 'A Prophet Without Honor' as a Political Parable

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Two years after the publication of 'A Prophet Without Honor', it might be safe to risk a little controversy and discuss the political parable I had in mind in writing the novel. 


Back in 2003, during the buildup to the Iraq War, I happened to be reading a collection of pieces of journalism published in the magazine The New Yorker, during the Second World War, extended essays from this city or that.

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“leniency Hitler received in 1923. He regretted that he had not been exiled or executed, according to the law.”
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“a funny, silly man who would have been pathetic if he hadn’t hurt so many people so badly. His regime unraveled so fast when it did unravel, that in hindsight he seems ridiculously small.”
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