Nancy's Bookshelf: Two former Chico State faculty members write about two very different kinds of militia

By Nancy Wiegman,

Published May 1, 2024 at 2:37 PM PDT

On April 29, 1981, American journalist George Thurlow was shot by members of the El Salvador Treasury Police on a jungle road in San Salvador. Thurlow writes about his experience in "El Salvador: Blood On All Our Hands" and details the incident.

Also, author and retired professor Robert Jackson writes a fictional account of the Jefferson State Rebellion.

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Nancy Wiegman

Nancy Wiegman has a master's degree in French linguistics from Indiana University and taught yoga and foreign languages at CSU Fresno and the College of Charleston before moving to Chico in 1990.

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Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.

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