Author William Burghardt’s New Book, "Walking Backward in My Father’s Footsteps," is the Captivating True Story of the Author’s Father’s Military Career
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Glen Ellyn, IL, May 01, 2024 --( PR.com )-- William Burghardt has completed his new book, “Walking Backward in My Father’s Footsteps”: a fascinating work that pieces together the experiences the author’s father had while in the military.Author William Burghardt is the author of “When Mongrel Dogs Teach,” a hilarious and controversial book on our educational system, an emotional quagmire experienced when Burghardt started teaching high school at age forty-five. He’s written two produced plays, “Just Before the Snow Melts” and “Shadow Stock,” and holds a BA in rhetoric from the University of Illinois and a master’s in theatre from Roosevelt University. As a theater critic, he won the Peter Lisagor Award for Outstanding Journalism Achievement and has acted in and/or directed over forty plays.Burghardt writes, “On that sunny June day in 1962, we were playing ‘war,’ which, in an oxymoronic way, sounds retrospectively ridiculous; as I recall, it involved shooting people with sticks used as musket-like rifles, followed by an endless choral claim of ‘You’re dead. Page Publishing knows that authors need to be free to create, not mired in logistics like eBook conversion, establishing wholesale accounts, insurance, shipping, taxes, and so on. Page’s accomplished writers and publishing professionals allow authors to leave behind these complex and time-consuming issues and focus on their passion: writing and creating.