Ted Magnuson


In the Works 2008...


'Setting the scene for Legacy
The Bouchard Family Home
42 Fern Drive, Tower Grove Park,
St. Louis, MO

The Bouchard Legacy is my 'window' into boomer days and boomer ways, it's about being a kid, becoming an adult and what it means to 'come of age.'

Life, as lived in the days from 1957, with the civil rights marches, through the JFK assisination, in those heady, heavy days that came crashing down around us in 1979 when American Diplomats were held captive in Iran for over 400 days.
The Bouchard Legacy is scheduled for release in 2008 through CD and audio file download.

Stay tuned.

The Power of Story-transforming what we see, raising what we think and informing our actions...at its best, story builds community.

My Works
--an admittedly eclectic lot

Those Self Evident Truths
Audio CD
In these words from our forbearers, in brief accounts of the events leading up to their creation, Ted invites us to reflect on the aims of democracy--on the aims of ‘Nation-building, American style.’ In such a condensed form, one can only marvel at the dedication and vision of those who’ve gone before us.
In our own times, generations still alive have seen the American Experience in Nation-building rebuild Europe after the World Wars. We’ve seen Japan and parts of Korea boosted into the technological age. In many ways and places, America has made its presence known. While Those Self Evident Truths implies no specifics on strategies and tactics, one question Ted can’t help but ask is ‘Can 800 years of struggle and heritage be downloaded into one election cycle?”

Audio CD 73 minutes $12.00
ISBN 978-0-9800125-0-7


The Moses Probe
Paperback Original
While preparing to embark for Alpha Centauri Lt. Jac Flyte receives a call from Cheryl, his former fiancé. She asks him...if before he goes away forever...could he come see what her colleague Edmund Leahy has done? The breakthrough is far more than mere transit to Alpha C at the speed of light- It is instantaneous transit to any planet in the known Universe. Yet Jac knows Leahy has been mocked and maligned. Still, Cheryl is insistent. Jac considers this--what could be finer than an endless stream of dinners with Ms. Bellini and to be a Master of the Universe, too?

Ted Magnuson on Public Radio Exchange.
This is a work in progress. Your ideas welcomed.

The Bouchard Legacy
Audio CD To Be Published 2008.
In 1972, After Paul Elser helped bring the released POWs home from Vietnam, he pitched in alongside Daddy Bruce steadily building up business for the Sunny Day Soda Company. But as the 70's progress, the duplicitous Henry Allen pushes the aging patriarch Eli Bouchard. 'Put an end to the 80 year old company,' he said. 'Sell everything.'
Brother Randy, gambler, sex addict, and wastrel, is no help, either. Fleeced by his 'trophy' bride, he's ripe to fall for his father greedy designs.
The stockholders meeting is today. Paul needs this company to live. He didn't give life 'his all' only to be stripped of everything he worked so hard for. He takes stock of his resources...a heart-beat, a dream and calluses...Just see if he can't shut down the sale.



What's New?

Audio CD
Those Self Evident Truths
In Those Self Evident Truths, Ted Magnuson traces the roots of democracy through the Magna Carta, The American Declarations of Independence, the Preamble to the US Constitution, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
commentary
Ted Magnuson on Public Radio Exchange.
Here is my catalogue of audio files
science fiction adventure
The Moses Probe
Some will stop at nothing to get the information, even murder. "The Moses Probe" by Ted Magnuson will thrill both Science Fiction and Fantasy fans. Debra Gaynor in Reader Views



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