Writers of Passage Pt. IYoung Americans Find an International Voice

Introduction, 'Sleeve Notes' & Bibliography

Cliches become cliches because they are inherently true over long periods of time. Justsuch a cliché was coined by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839. The quote wasa line embedded in a poem about Cardinal Richelieu – a 17th century French catholicpolitician. The line that Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote that is likely to live for ages is quitesimply and superbly;'The Pen is Mightier than the Sword'...

This streamZcast streaming audio compendium, and its associated companion eBookZ,explores the human stories of five American men of the pen who gifted that young nationan internationally recognised voice after many years of introspection and isolation. Thelone wolf returns to the international pack...

Writers of PassageYoung Americans Find an International Voice

As you read with your ears and listen with your heart, you will travel through history withthis streamZcast.com compendium. History and its myriad voices...

These remarkable writers writers of passage, wrote of ordinary people in a new frontier.Europeans and others inherit their culture. The young Americans had to build theirsalmost literally from scratch.

All that means that the streamZcast compendium of stories of history begins with JohnFilson, born in Pennsylvania but wrote of the iconic Daniel Boone after acquiring land inthe new Territory of Kentucky. Then rapidly on his heels is James Fenimore Cooper –American literary style was beginning. The world was also beginning to learn about theiryoung but complicated nation. Then a long glimpse into the harrowing horrors of slaverythrough the eyes and words of Frederick Douglass. Then, piloting up and down themighty Mississippi, was the mighty Mark Twain. And rounding this part 1 of streamzcast'sWriters of Passage, is Upton Sinclair whose work changed the American government inways that still affect his countrymen to this day.

Each of our compendiumZ come with sleevenotes of how we researched and recordedthe stories of history, comprehensive bibliographies and a list of recommendedcompanion eBookZ – many available from thestreamZcast.com website.

Read with your ears, listen with your heart, listen to the Future of History, streamZcast...

Sapere Aude (Latin trans: 'Dare to Know')

streamZcast SleeveNotes

John Filson – A Pioneering Voice for America

LWG: "Well Mark, The Adventures of Daniel Boone were published in 1785 in Paris,France. The first true American novel. The epic story of Boone overshadows anyEuropean rival at that time. The American Frontier replaces the kingdoms of myth inEurope. Filson actually awoke the world to the New Frontier.”

MVW: "That's right Bill, I have a limey Englishman-type admission to make here. I hadnever heard of John Filson until you suggested him as the lead in author for this Writers ofPassage compendium. After I browsed the Filson Society website I quickly becameconvinced that Filson was the natural lead in. Especially as his life story is as compelling

as those of Boone and his band of longhunters such as Simon Kenton. It works for me...”

Research/ Writing/ Narration: Bill Goodwin/ Mark Woods BA (Hons) Production/ Sound/ sfx: Mark Woods BA (Hons)Recorded at: the Cedar Ridge Sound Lounge, Bowling Green, Kentucky 2010Additional Credit: Occasional piano music – Spencer Woods

James Fenimore Cooper -

MVW "The earliest American author I heard of, and that was through the English schoolliterature curriculum ,was James Fenimore Cooper. We were taught that his works withtheir romantic delivery and overtones pushed the boundaries of European andInternational writing.”

LWG: "Think about this Mark. JFC is widely regarded as America's first romantic writer, ina literary sense if you will, but he found and was innovative in portraying the nativeAmerican with nobility instead of as savages in the wilderness. He made the negro freeinstead of enslaved. He was the first, and bold and romantic at the same time”

Research/ Writing/ Narration: Bill Goodwin/ Mark Woods BA (Hons) Production/ Sound/ VO's: the 'Mighty' Norm Haney/ Mark Woods BA (Hons)Recorded at: the Forever Communications Studios, Bowling Green, Kentucky 2009

Frederick Douglass-

LWG: "That is the reason I suggested Frederick Douglass as a powerful counterpoint tothe romantic. Douglass, as well as being black, was not just a powerful self-taught writer,he was a formidable intellect and orator. (He was fond of being quoted as; 'I would unitewith anybody to do right, and with nobody to do wrong'. ”

MVW: "I can only agree entirely with that quote, Bill. It struck me as we researched andrecorded this Writers of Passage segment, that FD was the American writer, even if black,to show, on an international stage, that the pen is mightier than the sword.”

Research/ Writing/ Narration: Bill Goodwin/ Mark Woods BA (Hons) Production/ Sound/ VO's: the 'Mighty' Norm Haney/ Mark Woods BA (Hons)Recorded at: the Forever Communications Studios, Bowling Green, Kentucky 2009

Mark Twain -

MVW: "And now to a big hero of yours, Bill. Mark Twain is in an international sense thethe biggest lone wolf in this pack. I remember us recording this live in a local radiostation. It was the first story of history we ever recorded. While editing it in the mixingdesk, I felt it was right and in keeping to leave in some of the the fluffs and gaffes – givesit a form of authenticity.”

LWG: "You got it in one, Mark. Twain was the master of colloquial speech and the creatorof American humour. Any one of his books is a record of a pleasure trip through life. Even

just reading his copious quotes is a pleasure in itself As we tried to demonstrate in thisparticular story of history. Genius...”

Research/ Writing/ Narration: Bill Goodwin/ Mark Woods BA (Hons) Production/ Sound/ VO's: the 'Mighty' Norm Haney/ Mark Woods BA (Hons)Recorded at: the Forever Communications Studios, Bowling Green, Kentucky 2009

Upton Sinclair -

MVW: " It strikes me Bill, that Mr Sinclair was the diametric opposite of Mark Twain. Ithink it was Time Magazine which said ' This man has no sense of humour' – he sure gotnoticed though...”

LWG: "Yet he did have the voice of the social and economic conscience of America.His views of the injustices of American capitalism were overwhelming, Mark His writingsspurred America's government into regulating numerous industries. He left a legacy ofeducating the world about America's poverty and inequity. And that's no joke...”

Research/ Writing/ Narration: Bill Goodwin/ Mark Woods BA (Hons) Production/ Sound/ VO's: the 'Mighty' Norm Haney/ Mark Woods BA (Hons)Recorded at: The Cedar Ridge Sound Lounge, Bowling Green, Kentucky 2011Additional Credit: Occasional piano music – Spencer Woods

Inside the streamZcast recording studio

MW: Yeah Bill... When we inked our our contract with audible.com and became astreaming audio supplier to Audible, Amazon and iTunes, I woke up in the middle of thenight, reached for my iPhone and jotted down a note that 'the Medium is the Message'.By that I mean that a streamZcast compendium about the development of Americanwriters before and after their Civil War was a literal (excuse the pun) no brainer. Internetbookshops offering streaming audio books about writers – obvious or what?

LWG: When you told me it made instant sense, just add water. We had the FenimoreCooper, Frederick Douglass and numerous Mark Twain shows already recorded as 30minute radio shows. So why not? Join the dots with some narrative.

MVW: So be it no 1. But your insight that we needed to top and tail that generation ofwriters that lifted the young USA out isolation and internalism is the icing on the cake. Iwas just about to upload the remixed Writers of Passage compendium when you cameinto our studio with a sheaf of, err..., notes on John Filson and Upton Sinclair. Top and tail.

LWG: Filson was the beginning with his tales of the iconic Daniel Boone and Sinclair ,with'The Jungle' especially, lead Americans from the New Frontier into a new 20th century. Atleast that's what I think...

MVW: As an Englishman and, more importantly, a European, that's my take on whathappened. All five authors were published internationally and sold volumes in volumeworldwide. Big respect sir.

LWG: You 're getting it ,sunshine. The American lone wolf came in from the cold andjoined the world pack. Let's wrap up the mix and publish...

streamZcast .com companion ebookZWith Notations, Social Context and DiscussionDownloadZ at www.streamzcast.com/ebookZ

John Filson: The Adventures of Daniel Boone – 1784

James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans – 1826James Fenimore Cooper: The Deerslayer - 1841

Frederick Douglass : The Life of frederick Douglass, an American Slave – 1845

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – 1876Mark Twain: The Prince and the Pauper - 1881Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - 1885Mark Twain: Pudd'nhead Wilson – 1894

Upton Sinclair: The Jungle – 1906Upton Sinclair: Sylvia's marriage – 1913

streamZcast.com ebookZ are researched, compiled and designed by Dennis (DGP) Price

Writers of Passage Bibliography

John Filson

Discovery, Settlement and Present Day Kentucke – John Filson, 1784Filson's Kentucky – W.R Gillson edThe Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia - 6th Edition, 2007 – Columbia University PressAdventures of Col. Daniel Boone – John Filson, 1784The Filson Historical Society, 3rd Street, Louisville , Kentucky, USA

James Fenimore Cooper

Cooper,, James Fenimore – Hugh Chisholm ed 1917Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th EditionJames Fenimore Cooper - 6th Edition, BostonA Man of Letters – Thomas R Lounsbury, Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1886James Fenimore Cooper – Wikipedia 2010Hugh Chrisholm: James Fenimore Cooper, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed., 1911

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of a American Slave, 1845Frederick Douglass: Autobiography, ed. Henry Louis Gates, Library of America, 2009

Wikipedia, Frederick Douglass, 2010Philip Sheldon Foner: The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, International Press,William S. Feely: Frederick Douglass, N.Y., Norton, 1991Benjamin Quarles: Frederick Douglass, Associated Press, Washington D.C., 1948

Samuel Langhorne Clemons- Mark Twain

The Mark Twain Boyhood Museum, Hannibal, Mo.Mark Twain, Collected Tales, Sketches, Speech and Essays 1891-1910, Library of America 1991James M. Cox: The Fate of Humor, N.J., Univ. of Princeton PressJerome Loving: The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemons, Univ. of California PressR. Kent Rasmussen: The Quotable Mark Twain, Contemporary Books, 1997Albert B. Paine: Mark Twain, A Biography: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemons,Harper Bros., 1912

Upton Sinclair

Sinclair Upton: Racial Innocent, N.Y., N.Y., Random House,2006Harris Leon, Upton Sinclair: American Rebel, Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1975Sinclair Upton: The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair, N.Y., N.Y., Harcourt , Brace & World 1962Sinclair Upton: My Life Time of Letters, Columbia, Mo., Univ. of Missouri Press, 1960Yoder Jan, Upton Sinclair,N.Y.,N.Y., Frederick Unger Publishing, Co.Wikipedia, Upton Sinclair, 2010

Photography by Mitchell Wilson DGA, recipient of the National Press Photographer of the Year Award and Emmy Award nominee.

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