NF Philip Thomas Tucker

[Belfoured]

I published one of the man's books. I would never publish anything else he has ever written.

I live rent free in his head. He became obsessed with me personally and I even made his bio on Amazon ("the Greek Napoleon"), which he trimmed down from about 9,000 words to whatever it is today. He thinks I have taken special pleasure in hurting his publishing career, which is just ridiculous. Any damage he has done, he has done to himself.

At least two different attorneys have contacted me on his behalf threatening to sue me, for what remains unclear. Tortious this, and fraudulent that. I encouraged them to do so because I have recorded calls from him late at night, a notebook of contemporaneous notes, emails back and forth that are not particularly favorable to him, and of course through discovery we might be able to find out about other things that I would be more than happy to pursue. I never hear back from the attorneys.

I wish Mr. Tucker well and hold no animus against him. I would just never publish him again or recommend his books to anyone, ever.

As you and I well know, if you're going to bring litigation it's a great idea to objectively assess your client's case first. I'm envisioning a deposition where the plaintiff here is interrogated about that ludicrous bio and the unhinged conspiracy rants. It reminds me of a deposition I took in a case I was defending for a municipality brought by somebody who claimed he had been libeled, etc and suffered damages. When we got to his alleged emotional distress and I asked him about the specific cause that triggered it, he said it was his lawyer's press conference announcing the lawsuit. Needless to say, that one went the summary judgment route.

 

[rpkennedy]

Also, what's up with everything being a new, groundbreaking work? I get that you have to sell your books but publishing a half dozen books in a year, each more groundbreaking than the last sounds like something a cartoon supervillain would say.

Ryan

 

[Jamieva]

Also, what's up with everything being a new, groundbreaking work? I get that you have to sell your books but publishing a half dozen books in a year, each more groundbreaking than the last sounds like something a cartoon supervillain would say.

Ryan

Its all code words he's using ground breaking etc to try to grab attention from readers.

 

[Belfoured]

I can guess what the other was

No, I didn't flip the handle ....

 

[TallTallMan]

I published one of the man's books. I would never publish anything else he has ever written.

I live rent free in his head. He became obsessed with me personally and I even made his bio on Amazon ("the Greek Napoleon"), which he trimmed down from about 9,000 words to whatever it is today. He thinks I have taken special pleasure in hurting his publishing career, which is just ridiculous. Any damage he has done, he has done to himself.

At least two different attorneys have contacted me on his behalf threatening to sue me, for what remains unclear. Tortious this, and fraudulent that. I encouraged them to do so because I have recorded calls from him late at night, a notebook of contemporaneous notes, emails back and forth that are not particularly favorable to him, and of course through discovery we might be able to find out about other things that I would be more than happy to pursue. I never hear back from the attorneys.

I wish Mr. Tucker well and hold no animus against him. I would just never publish him again or recommend his books to anyone, ever.

Geez, what a tale.

My favorite part was "through discovery we might be able to find out about other things that I would be more than happy to pursue".

Was this it?

The Alamo’s Forgotten Defenders: The Remarkable Story of the Irish During the Texas Revolution

A leader in military and general history book publishing.

www.savasbeatie.com

 

[TallTallMan]

Per the previous link, Tucker won the Douglas Southall Freeman Award for his Bannon bio.

Douglas Southall Freeman History Award Winners

Awarded by the Military Order of the Stars and Bars, the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award is given for the best published book of high merit in the...

www.goodreads.com

 

[Militarybooks]

Per the previous link, Tucker won the Douglas Southall Freeman Award for his Bannon bio.

Douglas Southall Freeman History Award Winners

Awarded by the Military Order of the Stars and Bars, the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award is given for the best published book of high merit in the...

www.goodreads.com

He did, yes.

 

[TallTallMan]

@Belfoured Other than Carhart, he does steal some from William G. Piston in the Custer at Gettysburg book, where he says there aren't any statues to either Custer nor Stuart, which reminded me of in Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant when he begins by saying there are no statues of Longstreet.

Carhartism was also in Reading the Man, otherwise the greatest book on Lee, except that.

 

[TallTallMan]

Tucker's complaint that The Killer Angels SHOULD'VE talked about the calvary fight on day three is childish. Shaara never claimed that TKA was a definitive take on the battle. Ralph Peters said a hundred novels could be written about the battle and still there'd be plenty of stuff left over.

 

[TallTallMan]

Tucker ought to write a Gods and Generals novelization.

 

[Belfoured]

Tucker ought to write a Gods and Generals novelization.

Send him the suggestion. He'll get it published by next week.

 

[TallTallMan]

Send him the suggestion. He'll get it published by next week.

"Stonewall Jackson talked about the bayonet a lot in his talk about the bayonet, which was most repetitive."

 

[DixieRifles]

Oh...wait...you did use the qualifier '...good...' - curses, foiled again...

"Killing Bill O'Riley" by @USS ALASKA

 

[rupert822]

He has always struck me as in the same vein as Joe Ryan, the guy who tries to make his bones off of attacking Joe Harsh, and publishes things like "Special Orders 191: Ruse of War". Instead of using your phd to be a part of, and advance the academy, why not show your true understanding of academia by attacking real historians like Mr. Harsh and Mr. Wittenberg? It seems to me that much like Mase, he interprets his phd as a player hater degree.

That said, some of his posited theories, like Reynolds' ghost taking control of the 11th corps on July 1 are indeed groundbreaking revisions.

Signed,

The Right Honorable Rupert822, Esq., MA, etc., etc, etc.....

 

[Biscoitos]

He did, yes.

That's impressive.

 

[TallTallMan]

He has always struck me as in the same vein as Joe Ryan, the guy who tries to make his bones off of attacking Joe Harsh, and publishes things like "Special Orders 191: Ruse of War". Instead of using your phd to be a part of, and advance the academy, why not show your true understanding of academia by attacking real historians like Mr. Harsh and Mr. Wittenberg? It seems to me that much like Mase, he interprets his phd as a player hater degree.

That said, some of his posited theories, like Reynolds' ghost taking control of the 11th corps on July 1 are indeed groundbreaking revisions.

Signed,

The Right Honorable Rupert822, Esq., MA, etc., etc, etc.....

Zombie Lee!!!

 

[TallTallMan]

@Eric Wittenberg I just bought Little Phil. I hope Tuck doesn't kill me!

 

[Eric Wittenberg]

@Eric Wittenberg I just bought Little Phil. I hope Tuck doesn't kill me!

He might be lurking. As Elmer Fudd would say, "be very, very careful!"

 

[TallTallMan]

He might be lurking. As Elmer Fudd would say, "be very, very careful!"

As a cartoon fan I can agree.

I just went and reread that email you shared he sent you. I love when he says he is the most cyberbullied man on Earth

 

[TallTallMan]

Been doing an Archive.Org investigation of Tucker and his book Irish Confederates (published by the McWhiney Foundation--you know, Attack and Die? Celtic heritage?) has a stupid statement in the FIRST PARAGRAPH:

Uh, what about the many fans of THIS GUY?!?!

Also, the introduction is 29 pages with only five pages of published sources, in big text.