The Official John Wayne Handy Book of Emergency Preparedness: Essential skills for prepping, surviving and bugging out when disaster strikes

by Billy Jensen, Check Freedman, Richard Phipps (Illustrator)

Be ready for anything. Protect your family. Survive the worst that man - and nature - have to offer.

If there’s one thing John Wayne admired, it was someone who could stand on their own two feet and take care of themselves no matter what the day might bring. In his films, he played everything from explorers of the western frontier to self-sufficient men who understood how best to handle even the worst disasters that nature or man could throw at them. The value of these skills, and the ability to stand on one’s own two feet, not matter what happens, wasn’t lost on Duke, who valued individualism and self-reliance above all else.
With that in mind, the editors of The Official John Wayne Collector’s Edition Magazine are proud to publish The Official John Wayne Handy Book of Emergency Preparedness – just the thing you need to ensure the safety of yourself and your family should disaster strike.

The book includes 100+ tips and techniques for prepping your home and family for disaster, whether it be natural or manmade, surviving at home when sheltering in place is the best option, or bugging out and hitting the road when it’s not.

You'll find detailed step by step guidelines

- Preparing your mind for conflict
- Finding or building medical supplies
- Administering first aid
- Mitigating the effects of disaster on morale and boredom
- Finding and storing food for the long haul
- Finding, storing and purifying water
- Cooking when you haven’t any gas or electricity
- Heating your home or staying warm wherever you are
- Cooling your home or warding off the heat wherever you are
- Bugging out with the right equipment and surviving on the road
- Home defense planning

The book is written by Check Freedman, an active U.S. special operative, and Billy Jensen, a former Green Beret. They are the founders of Captive Audience Prevention Training and Recovery Team and the authors of Survival Ready and The Official John Wayne Handy Book of Bushcraft. Their expertise and wealth of first-hand experience ensures that The Official John Wayne Handy Book of Emergency Preparedness has all the information you need to prepare for whatever may come with confidence and skill.

256 pages, Hardcover

Published May 9, 2023

About the author

An American true crime investigative journalist and producer, focusing on unsolved crimes, citizen detectives, and crowdsolving, I’ve written crime stories for Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Magazine, Boston Magazine, and the New York Times. Referred to as an expert on amateur digital detectives by both MSNBC and Al Jazeera America, I presented the panel “Solving Murders With Social Media” at the SXSW Interactive and the National Cybercrime Conference. During the day you can find me working as a supervising producer and special investigator at the Warner Bros. program Crime Watch Daily, where I run all digital operations for the program. At night, you can find me working on my next case, representing justice so far as my feeble powers go.



In the past, I co-founded the Long Island Press newspaper, True Crime Report, and the largest public unsolved murders database. I earned a master’s degree in religious studies from the University of Kansas and played professional roller hockey (earning the first minor penalty in Major League Roller Hockey history). I am also a sought after digital media consultant, having been general manager of Buzzmedia and head of digital at Village Voice Media, overseeing the digital transformation of 17 alternative weeklies.

Reviews

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was the first survival guide type of book I have ever read. It was fairly quick to read with lots of visuals including lists, diagrams, and pictures, mainly stills from John Wayne movies that corresponded to the various topics covered in the book. It contained information I knew as well as information I did not and think could be helpful in a survival situation in both cases, although I hope not to personally experience conditions that warrant the tips included. I am not sure I am cut out to make it in survival mode, although I might be able to rise to the occasion. I wish this book actually had more of a tie to John Wayne since his name is used in the title. I feel it is a bit misleading to say that it is an official John Wayne handy book when none of the survival types come from John Wayne. The tips are only tied to him from the various pictures from his movies that relate to the numerous survival situations and his likeness used as the person in example diagrams. I understand that one of the authors is a fan of John Wayne, as am I, but I do not feel the title is accurate.