Robert Charles Burdett (Bob) is a writer, author, and playwright. His major interests are genealogy, architecture, history, and religion. He is a native of North Dakota but has lived in Omaha, Nebraska since 1970.
Burdett is a graduate of Bismarck Junior College (1968), North Dakota State University (BSIE, 1970), Creighton University (MBA, 1975), and the Archdiocese of Omaha Catholic Biblical School (2003-7).
In an earlier life, Burdett was a statistical quality control engineer for Western Electric (Ma Bell’s manufacturing unit), Lucent Technologies, and Avaya. This, in part, explains his strange writing style (e.g., all those tables and section headings).
A more complete biography can be found in "BS2: An Autobiography."
Robert Charles Burdett (Bob) is a writer, author, and playwright. His major interests are genealogy, architecture, history, and religion. He is a native of North Dakota but has lived in Omaha, Nebraska since 1970.
Burdett is a graduate of Bismarck Junior College (1968), North Dakota State University (BSIE, 1970), Creighton University (MBA, 1975), and the Archdiocese of Omaha Catholic Biblical School (2003-7).
In this book “A Catholic” provides some tips for how you can pray Scripture. The first three chapters define and describe: “A Catholic,” prayer types, and Scripture (from a Catholic perspective). Chapter 4 provides the promised “Prayer Writing Techniques” noted in the books subtitle. The next four chapters provide some examples of...
Building upon a thesis proposed by Arthur Gray, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, this book contains a history play which dramatizes how Henry Goodyer, Thomas Burdett, and Raphael Holinshed, via a literary salon called the “Polesworth Circle,” educated, trained, and supported two of England’s most notable poets and playwrights, Michael Drayton...
Shortly after December 7, 1941, the Genda, Oshima and Shiroyama families were uprooted from their Terminal Island, California homes and interred at Manzanar. This book provides some details on the lives of these three families before, during and after their incarceration. It also examines the U.S. Governments conduct during the war, life on...
In my book A Catholic Prays Scripture: and tips for how you can too, I wrote, … “what we read says something about who we are and who or what is our god. If all you read is the Wall Street Journal and Business Week, then maybe money is your god. If all you read is the sports page or Sports Illustrated, then maybe sports figures are your gods. If all you read is People Magazine and The National Enquirer, then maybe Hollywood is your Holy Land.” I further noted that, “I certainly hadn’t spent...
My previous post was meant to be the introduction to this book review. It detailed how I first got interested in television and broadcasting. I was a small cog at a one-camera, small-market, television station in North Dakota. John Malone is a giant in the global television and broadcasting industry.
So, picking up from where I left off, herein is a review of John Malone’s recently published book, Born to Be Wired: Lessons from a Lifetime Transforming Television, Wiring America for the...
I have been interested in television since I was five or six years old, since KFYR-TV began broadcasting from Bismarck, North Dakota in 1953. I can remember – I am not sure why – sitting in front of my parent’s first black and white television, watching the “test pattern” (the one with the Indian chief), before the station began its abbreviated broadcast day (in the late afternoon).
In those days, I lived in Riverdale, North Dakota, about 60 miles north of KFYR’s temporary transmitter, which...
