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...
This is a book review of God, the Science, the Evidence: The Dawn of a Revolution, by Michel-Yves Bollore and Olivier Bonnassies (2025). The book is advertised (on the front cover) as an international best seller, with more than 400,000 copies sold.
One thing that has bothered me of late is a perception that the younger generations think they are too smart for God. They are so consumed by “following the science” that they have lost track of God. This is particularly concerning when there are...
This is a book review of Safe Passage: The Untold Story of Diplomatic Intrigue, Betrayal, andthe Exchange of American and Japanese Civilians by Sea During World War II, by Evelyn Iritani (2026).
The book focuses on the second negotiated exchange of civilian prisoners, by the governments of Japan and the United States, which occurred in the fall of 1943, in the middle of World War II. I was interested in this book because my wife’s families, of Japanese ancestry, experienced many of the same...
In my previous post I outlined the “road trip” that my wife and I took during the summer of 2026. In this post I will describe the trip in more detail “day by day.”
I should note that one can drive from Omaha, Nebraska to Bismarck, North Dakota, in 8 hours and 29 minutes (per Google, along Interstates 29 and 94). Even taking the more circuitous route that we took, avoiding the interstates, takes only nine hours and 24 minutes. So, by taking three days to get to Bismarck, we were demonstrating...
