A Montana Periodical Devoted to Journalism and Justice

Nathaniel Blumberg, Dean of the University of Montana School of Journalism, in 1958 established the Montana Journalism Review, the first academic journalism review in the United States, three years before the founding of the Columbia Journalism Review. After lecturing for 41 years as a professor or visiting professor at six major universities, he devoted his time to WoodFIREAshes Press and the 12-page Treasure State Review, published periodically since Winter Solstice, 1991. Twenty printed issues of the only state periodical engaged in critical analyses of the corporate news media have established its reputation as the nation's hardest-hitting journalism review. Now it has come to the Internet.

 
A Memoir of World War II

Corporal Nathan Blumberg, a member of the forward observation team of Battery C, 666th Field Artillery Battalion, wrote and published the first history of an Army unit in World War II a few days after V-E Day, 1945, in Germany. It traced the history of the crack 155mm howitzer non-divisional battalion from its formation at Camp Bowie, Texas, to the Battle of the Bulge, the crossings of the Roer and Rhine Rivers, and the drive to the heart of Germany. More than half a century later, Nathaniel Blumberg returned to Belgium and Germany three times (including a "reunion" with German veterans of the Battle of the Bulge) to write the full story of what it was like to be a member of an outfit that went in cold—in more ways than one—to take on Hitler's elite SS troops in the snows of the Ardennes.

 
A CONTEMPORARY HISTORICAL NOVEL

Late in the afternoon of March 30, 1981, NBC's John Chancellor, looking astonished, reported that Scott Hinckley, brother of the suspected assassin, was scheduled to have dinner the next night with Neil Bush, son of the man who would become president if Ronald Reagan died of his wounds. A peculiar thing happened in the wake of what may be the most extraordinary coincidence in the history of presidential assassinations. The national print and broadcast media quickly spiked or dismissed that story and then failed to report or misreported scores of other facts documented in this novel that includes a non-fiction investigative article by a Montana newsman. Those who still think John Hinckley did it "to impress Jodie Foster" are in for a revealing trip that covers far more issues than the assassination attempt—including a penetrating analysis of the Central Intelligence Agency. In the light of the criminal activities of Neil Bush and his family in the 20 years since that infamous afternoon, this book is even more relevant today than it was when published in 1984.

Internet Issue #1

Stories about the most dangerous family in American politics from the first 20 issues of Treasure State Review.