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 post is a review of The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal by Nick Bryant (2009/2012). I must warn you that this review is quite lengthy because, for me to review a book on a scandal such as this, I must first try to describe it. Let me also report upfront, I found the book to be very disturbing.
Once a week I get an email from the Omaha Public Library, which lists the books that they have recently added to their catalogue. The great majority of those...
The 2026 mid-term election is over; a blue tsunami rolled over the nation.
In two earlier blog posts this year (7/05 and 11/01), I wrote about some of this year’s candidates. In this post, I will update you on how they fared. To add one more cliché to my last blog post – “You Can’t Win ‘Em All” (“may have originated among poker players – popular in the United States since about 1940”).
Iowa Governor: Let’s start over in Iowa. The only race that I wrote about (11/01/26) was the gubernatorial...
The 2026 mid-term election is only two days away. It may radically change America as we know it – as we have known it for 250 years.
In the October 2026 issue of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis publication, Kimberley A. Strassel, wrote an alarming article entitled “The Rise of Democratic Socialism.”
In her article, Strassel noted:
· “[Vermont Senator Bernie Sander’s] growing army of democratic socialists are working to capture the Democrat Party from within, replace its agenda with their own,...
