Harry N. MacLean's Blog
April 18, 2023
Starkweather The Untold Story of the Killing Spree That Changed America
My book on Starkweather and Fugate is finished and is due to be out next fall. Here is the “cover reveal.” The cover is fantastic.
#coverreveal!
— Counterpoint Press (@CounterpointLLC) April 14, 2023
Today brings us STARKWEATHER: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America by Edgar Award-winner @HarryNMacLean.
Cover is by @Robinbillz, with @nlcaputo as AD.
STARKWEATHER arrives 11/28/23 and is available for preorder now!https://t.co/enEAMBCSLG pic.twitter.com/sMIRYyPRma
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June 3, 2022
The Internal Sale, Part 2: What You Can Start Doing TODAY (Your Teaching)
Last week we looked at one citizen who did a public service for 95 million Americans.
We explored how this kind of modeling is the first step in creating a culture within which you can build great employees who become principled future owners. These are the kind of people who grow into owning your firm.
Noreen Harrington shared with the Colorado Financial Planning Association (COFPA) how she did this. Harrington, a Trustee of Adelphia University in New York, is a former managing director at Gold...
June 2, 2022
Make Work Fun
The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.
– Dr. Stuart Brown
We often believe that the most basic rule of business is work. “Work more, work longer and work harder” goes the mantra.
Both from my observation of business owner clients and from listening to Dr. Stuart Brown — psychiatrist, clinical researcher and founder of the National Institute of Play — I argue for a new curriculum! Let’s introduce more, longer and harder…play.
What is Play?
Play is, very simply, doi...
June 1, 2022
The Two Most Important Questions to Ask Yourself Every Day You’re Selling – Part 2
“Servant selling.” It sounds like an oxymoron. Isn’t the goal of every business to make money? To increase the lifetime value of a client (to my firm)? Last week, my post demonstrated how there’s scientific support behind this notion of servant selling. Clearly, this concept undercuts the conventional wisdom of focusing on revenue optimization in both business and capital markets. This week, I’ll walk you through another doorway that leads to a room bigger than just your customer: a better world...
May 30, 2022
What’s Your V8 Moment?
If you are a baby boomer or have boomer parents, you’ve probably come across this ad:
The Crankset Group has dubbed these Blinding Flashes of the Obvious. BFOs are epiphanic moments of “seeing” something essential for the first time or perhaps recalling something foundational that we’ve neglected or forgotten.
Why is it so important to highlight BFO’s? Consider:
Vince Lombardi, legendary 1960s coach of the Green Bay Packers, used to begin preseason practice with these five words: “Gentlemen, t...October 25, 2021
SFGATE: New true crime show recounts how a Bay Area daughter’s ‘recovered memory’ led to a murder trial
BY Katie Dowd, SFGATE – Posted October 10, 2021
Susan Nason was a few days short of her 10th birthday when she went missing on Sept. 22, 1969. After an ordinary day at Foster City Elementary School, Susan walked to a friend’s house to drop off a pair of forgotten gym shoes. From there, she disappeared, kicking off a massive Bay Area search that tragically ended in the discovery of her body near Crystal Springs Reservoir a few months later.
The case went cold for decades. Then, 20 years...
October 17, 2021
Nebraska Public Media: Murder and memory: Nebraska native author’s controversial deep dive into unsolved killing now a Showtime series
By day, native Nebraskan Harry MacLean helps settle conflicts as an arbitration attorney. On nights and weekends, he ruminates over methods and motives of killing.
MacLean prepares to be interviewed for “Buried,” the docuseries based on his book that’s showing this month on Showtime. The author’s next project is about Charles Starkweather.The true-crime author’s book “Once Upon a Time: A True Story of Memory, Murder and the Law” examined a controversial case when a daughter’s playmate wen...
October 15, 2021
DailyMail: ‘A house of hell’: New docuseries examines the trial of man who was accused by his daughter of molesting and murdering her best friend, 8, in 1969 – a crime she remembered 20 years later after suppressing the memory
August 16, 2021
New Starkweather Book in the Works
Harry MacLean has a new book coming out soon about the role of Caril Fugate in the Charles Starkweather murders. Learn more from Lincoln Nebraska’s Journal Star https://journalstar.com/news/local/new-starkweather-book-to-examine-caril-ann-fugates-role-in-killings/article_49497af8-2ca8-5e61-8597-2a83da8e5f52.html
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