UP IN ARMS, John Temple
“IT’S TIME! They have my cattle and now they have one of my boys. Range War begins tomorrow at Bundy Ranch.” These words, pounded out on a laptop at Cliven Bundy’s besieged Nevada ranch on April 6, 2014, ignited a new American revolution. Across the country, a certain type of citizen snapped to attention: This […]
Untitled Nonfiction, John Temple
Edgar Award-nominated American Pain author John Temple’s new book chronicling the real-life Western epic of the Cliven Bundy clan and their thousands of zealous followers, from the 2014 standoff with federal officers at Bundy Ranch in Nevada to the 2016 takeover of a federal wildlife reserve in Oregon, in a saga that sheds light on America’s […]
American Pain film deal with Warner Bros. in Variety
Fun to see that VARIETY picked up the story about the film deal with Warner Brothers for John Temple’s AMERICAN PAIN: How a 27-year old Felon and Five Doctors Unleashed the Deadliest Drug Epidemic in U.S. History. Film agent par excellence, Shari Smiley (Gotham Group) brokered the deal with Warner Brothers after attracting Dallas Buyers […]
Where I Write: John Temple
The next writer in our Where I Write series is John Temple “My usual writing spot and position is feet up on the desk of my home office. It’s a smallish room with a window flanked by two big bookshelves that looks out on our hilly backyard where the boys play baseball. I have to […]
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John Temple John Temple’s latest book is UP IN ARMS: How the Bundy Family Hijacked Public Lands, Outfoxed the Federal Government, and Ignited America’s Patriot Militia Movement (Ben Bella Books, June, 2019) chronicles how a once isolated clan of desert-dwelling, ranchers first became a cause-célèbre for hard-right extremists and then transformed themselves into the top […]