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 previous post, I printed a review that I (a human) previously wrote concerning The Polesworth Circle, a book/play that I (a human) wrote. In this post, I am presenting a review that CoPilot, Microsoft’s AI-powered assistant, wrote in response to the instruction posed below.
“Write a 1000-word review of The Polesworth Circle by Robert Burdett.”
CoPilot’s review is published below – verbatim; not one word was changed. After the review, I will come back with a few comments on this “non-human...
When I first wrote my play “The Polesworth Circle,” as an appendix to my book BS3: Etcetera, I also wrote a review of the play (pages 69-70 in BS3). That review – of an imaginative performance of the play – is presented below. As far as I know, no other “humans” have reviewed the play or the book.
In my next post, I will print a “non-human” review of the book, that was written by CoPilot, Microsoft’s AI-powered assistant. I think that you will find the similarities (few) and differences...
Well, this is kind of weird. I am writing a review of a book after reading a review of a book – that book being From Calvinist to Catholic, an autobiography by Peter Kreeft (copyright 2025).
The review, Enjoyably Evangelical, was written by Kevin DeYoung, the senior pastor at Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, North Carolina. I ran across DeYoung’s review in the October 2025 issue of First Things. Let me begin with a few quotes from DeYoung’s review that enticed me to read (and review)...
