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An Unscripted Life
by Richard E. Tuttle
Paperback, 232 pages
Comstock Bonanza Press, October 10, 2011
Candid account of the author s schoolboy adventures in a mining town during the 1920s and 1930s; his wartime exploits in Benghazi, Libya, and internment in a German POW camp; early career as a fledgling attorney and professional lobbyist and involvement in the 1960s Civil Rights struggle in Mississippi; appointment to the Superior Court and California Energy Commission by Gov. Jerry Brown; musings about politics and war in the 21st century, and some curious encounters with the Rich and Infamous while on the bench.
About the Author
Richard Tuttle, a descendant of Forty-niner pioneers, says “I left Nevada City when I was 17 but my heart will always be there, with my memories of Bill Bennett, Ruth Curnow, and others of the old NCHS gang.” Today he resides in the foothill town of Mokelumne Hill.
Praise for the Book
‘Unscripted’ and unpretentious, Richard Tuttle’s memoir exhilarates the genre. Nevada City and Beyond serves the reader an abundance of entertainment and enlightenment in its travels, engaging history, psychology, religion and philosophy. Its range and variety sweep through war, law, family, politics and policy, love-the grandeur and absurdity of life. Tuttle’s witness and analysis is surprising, suspenseful, ironic, irreverent, indignant, hilarious, idealistic, generous, and, above all, high-spirited. Don’t miss it.”
—Jonathan Moore, former Ambassador to the United Nations
“Dick Tuttle might portray himself as an heroic airman over Nazi Europe, a crusading attorney in the segregated South or a learned Fellow at Harvard. He doesn’t. A man whose only prayer is that fate will treat him kindly, Tuttle is unwilling to call straight the crooked timber of his own humanity. In a lively and readable memoir, with integrity and conviction, he gives life to turbulent times.”
—Gage McKinney, author of The 1930s: No Depression Here
“From the Gold Country to a bomber squadron, then Stalag 17, Mississippi’s civil strife and the capitol’s courts. A sweeping saga spanning 90 years. And it’s all true!”
—Antoinette May, author of Pilate’s Wife and The Sacred Well
“Dick Tuttle has been witness to the sweep of zoth century history and a player in some of its defining moments: from harrowing bombing raids in World War II to Civil Rights work defending black Mississippians arrested for trying to vote.”
—Elizabeth Fishel
“[A] wild teenager in Nevada City; a German POW in World War II … eventually a California Superior Court Judge. Some authors write novels about lives like this, but Tuttle’s remarkable story is all true.”
—Frank Levy, Rose Professor of Urban Economics, M.I.T.