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Bill Branyon is a free-lance historian who has written three books: Blue Ridge Blues — a respectful, science fiction look at Billy Graham; Asheville NC, circa 2,000 AD — a historical faction about Asheville politics and culture; and now his first nonfiction book, Liberating Liberals: a political synthesis of Nietzsche and Jesus, Vonnegut and Marx (Groucho, not Karl) and Gandhi and Machiavelli.
For the last twenty years Bill has been a staff reporter and editorialist for the Mountain Xpress. He has a Masters degree in history from WCU, and a BA in history from Vanderbilt. He’s run for mayor, walked for peace, and is a hyper-activist — when not lying out by the pool.