JohN PATRICK.
WALSH
WHAT'S NEW
Just Released: Tolkien: Philosopher of War
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In popular imagination, Tolkien is a Luddite, but recent scholarship has identified Tolkien's extensive modern sympathies. Tolkien, Philosopher of War contributes to this growing literature. His is a modern critique of Enlightenment thinking, specifically those philosophies that wrest the initiative from God in divinizing man. His worry is apocalyptic politics—political movements that take Christ's word out of the realm of grace and make it a platform for political action.
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Tolkien took note of a tight analytical connection between the vanity driving commercial civilization and the vanity driving the Promethean fantasies of apocalyptic politics. War is a predictable outcome of this analytical connection. The book's three core theses run: 1) metaphysical: the apocalyptic anxiety of Tolkien's lore is traceable to the gnostic rejection of the analogy of being typical of the philosophies of history that dominated his day; 2) political: in the English context, Tolkien sided with the Tories against Whiggery, defending monarchy as a counterweight to the vanity driving progressive philosophy of history; 3) aesthetic: Futurism's philosophy of history celebrated the Machine; inverting the value order, the Futurism art movement encoded anti-Christianity, fascist politics, and apocalyptic war. Tolkien's "cosmogonical drama" dramatizes an aesthetic resistance to Futurism.
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SAMPLE COMING SOON
Newly Released: Who Was Pope Francis
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Jorge Mario Bergoglio, aka Pope Francis, from Argentina, was the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, and the first from the Southern Hemisphere. During his time as pope, he used a humbler, less formal approach to his office than his predecessors: a warm style that was referred to as "no frills." His common touch and accessibility, as well as his insistence that the church be more open and welcoming, quickly endeared him not only to Roman Catholics but to millions of others around the world.
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"I absolutely love this series. I have over 200 of these in my classroom and use them every single year in both reading and writing. These biographies are really written. The reading level of these books is about a third grade level, however, I do use them with older kids as a base of information when they do biographies."
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John Patrick Walsh is an experienced on-screen and voiceover actor as well as an audiobook narrator. Originally hailing from the East Coast, Walsh studied improv in Los Angeles with Bill Applebaum and appeared in several local stage productions before landing a role on General Hospital. From there he appeared in various TV and film roles including North Mission Road, 30 Rock and As the World Turns.
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Relatively new to the audiobook industry, Walsh has narrated a wide variety of titles including the Hachette multi-voice sports memoir One Magical Sunday by Phil Mickelson. Other titles include Blackstone’s Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes and Zondervan’s Life Changing Love. His voiceover work includes several corporate projects, industrial projects, TV promo spots and a film trailer.
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While raising his family in both California and Connecticut, Walsh remains a New Yorker at heart – having graduated from Fordham University, engaged at Lincoln Center, married on Park Avenue and then becoming a Dad at Lenox Hill Hospital, not once but twice. In fact, being Matt and Tim’s Dad is “the very best role of all."
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When he’s not busy performing, Walsh enjoys traveling with his family, coaching youth basketball and volunteering as a BookPal for the SAG Foundation. He’s also active with Saint Aloysius Church and New Canaan Exchange Club in New Canaan, CT.
Recording Studio Specs:
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Heil 460 microphone
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 audio interface
MacBook Pro, 8GB
macOS Monterey 12.3.1
Bose speakers
DT 770 PRO headphones
TwistedWave software
Version 25.8 (64-bit)
Zoom, FaceTime, Source Connect
7’ x 6’ insulated recording booth
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