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, The Polesworth Circle: The Education of William Shakespeare, I theorized that Raphael Holinshed, the great chronicler of England (and steward of the Burdett estate at Bramcote), taught William Shakespeare and Michael Drayton the art of storytelling. To substantiate my theory, I asked Copilot (Microsoft’s AI-assistant) three questions. The first, noted below, concerns where Holinshed lived during his life (London or Bramcote).
Question #1: I believe that Raphael Holinshed was...
This post is a review of I Went to Prison So You Won’t Have To: A Love and Lawfare Story in Trump Land by Peter Navarro and Bonnie Brenner (2025). The Foreword to the book was written by Stephen K. Bannon (another Trump senior advisor imprisoned because he invoked executive privilege when subpoenaed by the J6 committee).
During the first Trump administration, Navarro was the director of the White House National Trade Council before becoming the director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing...
My wife and I traveled to St. Louis last weekend to watch our granddaughter’s “club” volleyball team (from Tampa, Florida) play in the “2026 Nike Mideast Qualifier” (16 Liberty Division).
As our daughter and her family made it up to St. Louis (via plane, truck, and towed RV), we drove down from Omaha (444 miles) on Thursday. We then watched volleyball on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, before returning to Omaha on Monday. All and all, it was a fun trip – a nice visit with our daughter and her...
