A Boy at the Four Corners: Looking into Small-town America in its Prime

(CreateSpace) Seen through the eyes of a boy living in 1920’s and ’30’s small-town America, this nonfictional story reviews the four business blocks that comprised “downtown” in the village where the author lived, shopped, and went to school. It includes comprehensive descriptions of important events he witnessed at close range, like visits to his town by then-Gov. and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Ryan has written, ghostwritten, or co-authored 35 published nonfiction books, one novel, and one children’s chapter book.

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The cover of PAW’s November 2024 issue, featuring an illustration of a military tank that's made out of a pink brain, and the headline "Armed With Ideas: Princetonians lead think tanks through troubled political times."
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