Contemporary Authors

• Hands off My Gun: Defeating the Plot to Disarm America Center Street (New York, NY), 2014
• Flyover Nation: You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been To Sentinel (New York, NY), 2016

1. Flyover nation : you can't run a country you've never been to https://lccn.loc.gov/2016017440 Loesch, Dana, author. Flyover nation : you can't run a country you've never been to / Dana Loesch. New York, New York : Sentinel, [2016] 246 pages ; 23 cm JK275 .L65 2016 ISBN: 9780399563881 (hardback) 2. Hands off my gun : defeating the plot to disarm America https://lccn.loc.gov/2014027970 Loesch, Dana. Hands off my gun : defeating the plot to disarm America / Dana Loesch. First edition. New York, NY : Center Street, [2014] v, 298 pages ; 24 cm HV7436 .L64 2014 ISBN: 9781455584345 (hardback)

• Dana Loesch Radio - http://danaloeschradio.com/page/about/

  Dana Loesch hosts her award-winning, nationally syndicated daily radio show, The Dana Show: The Conservative Alternative from Dallas, Texas where she also hosts “Dana” on The Blaze television network. Dana appears regularly on Fox News, ABC, CNN, among others, and has co-hosted on “The View.” She describes herself as a “conservatarian.”

  Dana’s original brand of young, punk-rock, conservative irreverence has found a fast-growing audience in multiple mediums. Dana is listed in the top 25 of Talkers Magazine‘s top 100 “heavy hitters” and was named Missouri’s #1 Radio Personality in 2014. A former award-winning newspaper columnist, Dana was ranked as one of the top 16 most powerful mothers online by Neilsen and one of the top 30 Under 30 according to the St. Louis Business Journal. She was the 2012 winner of Accuracy In Media’s Grassroots Journalism award, as well as the inaugural Breitbart Spirit Award. Dana was one of the original Breitbart editors selected by her late friend and mentor, Andrew Breitbart, to head what was BigJournalism.com and helped break the Anthony Weiner scandal before departing in 2012. She is the author of two best-selling books: "Hands Off My Gun: Defeating the Plot to Disarm America" which turned the tide in the gun control debate, and "Flyover Nation: You Can't Run A Country You've Never Been To," which predicted the coastal-flyover divide and sentiment that decided the 2016 election. In 2016 she was named Special Advisor on Women's Policy for the NRA's Executive Vice-President and CEO Wayne LaPierre.

  A native Missourian, Dana and her family now live in Texas.

• Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Loesch

  Dana Loesch
  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Dana Loesch
  Portrait of Dana Loesch.jpg
  Loesch in February 2011.
  Born Dana Eaton[1]
  September 28, 1978 (age 38)[2][3]
  Residence Dallas, Texas, U.S.[4]
  Education Fox High School, Arnold, Missouri
  Occupation Radio host, television host, author, public speaker, political analyst
  Employer TheBlaze, Radio America
  Spouse(s) Chris Loesch
  Children 2 sons[3]
  Website http://www.danaradio.com
  Dana Loesch (pronounced day-nə lash, née Eaton, born September 28, 1978) is an American conservative talk radio host and television host at TheBlaze and author. Loesch has appeared as a political commentator on television networks such as Fox News, CNN, CBS, ABC, and HBO.

  Contents [hide]
  1 Early life
  2 Career
  3 Bibliography
  4 References
  5 External links
  Early life[edit]
  Loesch was raised by her mother, Gale, in an extended family of Southern Baptists. She graduated from Fox High School in Arnold, Missouri. She later attended St. Louis Community College at Meramec before transferring to Webster University to study journalism on scholarship.[5] Following a pregnancy, Loesch dropped out of college and married, having her first child when she was 21.[6] She grew up as a Democrat, a point of contention early in her marriage to Chris, a staunch Republican. However, she veered sharply to the right after the September 11 attacks. Loesch and her husband homeschooled two children together.[3]

  Career[edit]
  After leaving Webster University, Loesch began writing for St. Louis Magazine, doing investigative news articles and began her website "Mamalogues". Dana allowed the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to run with "Mamalogues" as a weekly column, which won Loesch the Riverfront Times' "Best Newspaper Columnist St. Louis 2007".[7] Loesch started hosting her radio show in 2008 which is now a nationally syndicated, daily program The Dana Show: The Conservative Alternative on Radio America from flagship station KFTK-FM in St. Louis, Missouri and is also featured on stations around the country.[8] In July 2008 Loesch was chosen as one of St. Louis Business Journal's top 30 Under 30.[9][10][11] She was recognized by the Nielsen ratings as one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Mom Bloggers.[12] In October 2010, Loesch was hired to be editor-in-chief of Big Journalism, a conservative website created by Andrew Breitbart.[13] In February 2011, CNN hired Loesch as a political analyst in preparation for its 2012 election coverage.[14]

  Loesch co-founded the St. Louis Tea Party in 2009 along with its board president, Bill Hennessy.[15] Loesch left the organization in December 2011.[15]

  Loesch was the recipient of Accuracy In Media's Grassroots Journalism award.[16][17] She also guest hosts for other national radio talent such as Glenn Beck and Michael Savage. Loesch was added to Talkers Magazine 's top 100 "heavy hitters" in 2012[18] and was number 33 in 2014.[19] Loesch hosted the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2013.[20]

  In December 2012, after the death of founder Andrew Breitbart in March 2012, Loesch sued the parent company of her former employer Breitbart.com. Loesch claimed in court documents that owner and operator Breitbart LLC bound her to "what amounts to indentured servitude in limbo" after she says she was forced to terminate her contract as the result of a hostile working environment.[21]

  On Thursday, January 12, 2012, Loesch spoke on her show in defense of U.S. Marines videotaped urinating on the corpses of dead Taliban fighters, commenting that "I'd drop trou and do it, too. That's me though. I want a million cool points for these guys (Marines). Is that harsh to say?"[22]

  In May 2013, after a series of public comments back and forth between Loesch and Piers Morgan on Twitter regarding the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby, Morgan vowed to ban Loesch from his show, Piers Morgan Live.[23] Loesch returned to the show in January 2014 after their producers, who were friends, arranged for Loesch and Morgan to work out their differences amicably.[24]

  On January 10, 2014, Loesch debuted her new daily TV Show, Dana, on Glenn Beck's TheBlaze TV.

  In October 2014, Loesch released Hands Off My Gun: Defeating the Plot to Disarm America.

  KFTK-FM in St. Louis, her original radio station, dropped her show in 2016.[25] The show was picked up by WSDZ-AM shortly thereafter.[26]

  In the 2016 Republican presidential primary, she endorsed Ted Cruz.[27]

• NRA - https://home.nra.org/nra-announcement-about-dana-loesch/

  Wayne LaPierre: Dana Loesch To Serve As Major NRA National Spokesperson
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  LaPierre names Loesch Special Assistant to the Executive Vice President for Public Communication
  (FAIRFAX, VA) - Dana Loesch, the conservative leader, online pioneer and nationally syndicated radio host, will serve as a major national spokesperson for the National Rifle Association. NRA Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre named Loesch as a Special Assistant to his office for Public Communication, with direct attributable authority on NRA matters.

  “During the past year Dana has proven herself to be a powerful voice for the Second Amendment rights of all Americans,” LaPierre said. “It is clear that Dana has the communication skills, experience, and natural ability to serve our organization well as one its very public faces in the news media.”

  Loesch was named by the NRA a year ago to serve as Special Advisor on Women’s Policy Issues. She has also continued to serve as an NRA Commentator on NRATV, and has made numerous national media appearances on behalf of the NRA.

  “I’ve been impressed with Dana’s command of the issues facing the NRA, as well as her ability to communicate our positions and connect with women, and men, on those issues,” LaPierre said.

  LaPierre further reiterated that Loesch now has full authority to represent the NRA on a broad range of issues.

  In addition to her new role as a major national media spokesperson for the NRA, Loesch hosts a nationally syndicated daily radio show, “The Dana Show,” as well as “Dana” on TheBlazeTV. She is a regular contributor to FOX News, ABC, CNN and other news programs, and has also co-hosted on “The View.” A former newspaper columnist and blogger, Loesch wrote the 2014 book, Hands Off My Gun: Defeating the Plot to Disarm America, as well as her newest best-seller, Flyover Nation, in which Loesch predicted the rise of flyover voters in the last general election.

QUOTED: "a strong pick for social issues and general collections alike."

Hands Off My Gun
California Bookwatch.
(Jan. 2015):
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Hands Off My Gun
Dana Loesch
Center Street
c/o Hachette Publishing Group
237 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017-0010
9781455584345, $26.00, www.centerstreet.com
Hands Off My Gun: Defeating the Plot to Disarm America comes from a talk show host and Second Amendment supporter who considers what is
needed to win the gun control debate in modern America, and maintains that anti-Second Amendment activists use fear and emotion from gun
incidents to further political agendas and keep minority populations under control. It debates how tougher gun control policies work in some
nations and states, packs in research and statistics to support her contentions about gun control issues, and covers many issues that both sides will
want to think about, making this a strong pick for social issues and general collections alike.
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"Hands Off My Gun." California Bookwatch, Jan. 2015. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do? p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA398252589&it=r. Accessed 19 Mar. 2017.

• American Rifleman
  https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2015/1/8/hands-off-my-gun-defeating-the-plot-to-disarm-america/
  Word count: 336

  QUOTED: "Hands Off My Gun is recommended reading, regardless of whether you’re a proud supporter of gun rights, an ardent gun control proponent or somewhere in-between."

  Kelly Young
  January 8, 2015

  Conservative radio and television host Dana Loesch’s new book, Hands Off My Gun: Defeating the Plot to Disarm America, unabashedly takes on the enemies of the Second Amendment and relentlessly assails them with something for which they have no defense—reality.

  In the author’s own words, “This book will cover every square inch of the gun control debate. This book will beat your progressive friends upside the head with facts. This book will challenge those who may be well-intentioned, but are uneducated about what our gun rights really mean, where they originate, and what the statistics actually say. Anti-Second Amendment advocates don’t want you to read this book. Make doing so an act of resistance.”
  Never abandoning her trademark fire, throughout its pages Loesch’s narrative identifies major forces behind the modern anti-gun movement (like Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America groups), sets the historical framework for the Second Amendment, chronicles the dangerously anti-freedom voting records of President Obama and key officials within his administration, highlights the hypocrisy of Hollywood and the mainstream media in regards to guns, extols the virtues of responsible firearm use and debunks the multitude of firearm-related myths (lies) often parroted by anti-gunners–all set to the backdrop of the author’s own experiences.

  Hands Off My Gun is recommended reading, regardless of whether you’re a proud supporter of gun rights, an ardent gun control proponent or somewhere in-between. Viewer discretion is advised, however, as Loesch also relates in the book many of the threats and insults that have been hurled at her over the years by members of the “tolerant Left” – many of which are exceedingly vulgar and violent. Available wherever books are sold. Price: $26.

• Conservative Book Club
  https://www.conservativebookclub.com/book/flyover-nation-you-cant-run-a-country-youve-never-been-to
  Word count: 651

  QUOTED: "Flyover Nation is a shout out to all the small town cities across America and the people that America is really made up of, the people that the media forgets and ignores. Dana Loesch brings an impressive array of fiery common sense arguments against the coastal elite that makes for a great read."

  Is America separating into two countries with wildly different beliefs? That’s what conservative talk show host and gun rights activist Dana Loesch argues in her new book, Flyover Nation: You Can’t Run a Country You’ve Never Been To.

  Loesch suggests that there are two Americas: The Coastals who consist of leftist, snobby, city dwellers removed from the rest of the country and Flyover Nation, the down to earth, god fearing, small town people that have common sense and believe in quaint ideas like hard work, patriotism, and the right to bear arms.

  The motto of Flyover Nation is that “You can’t run a country you’ve never been to” and it attempts to show that there is a disconnect from city people of, say, New York City and the people in small town cities across most of the United States. The book strives to explain how the leftist coastal elites attempt to run our country by their standards and the needs of the city people rather than the people of Flyover Nation. Loesch amusingly comments that the only time many of the big senators and politicians see Flyover Nation is when they look down from their airplane while flying coast to coast — hence the title.

  Almost all of Flyover Nation’s chapters begin with a past experience of Loesch’s, usually one that involves her family in their small Flyover town. From there Loesch will talk about a value that she learned from her past experiences with her family before going into an attack on the coastal leftists that want to remove or diminish the values of Flyover Nation. This leads to a situation in which Loesch spends much of her book attacking liberal ideas of the coastals. While these segments are usually entertaining they can sometimes come across as more of a rant against a liberal agenda than an attempt to prove one of her points. However, despite sometimes feeling like chapters of numerous rants, the book delivers excellent points about the growing differences between many of Americans.

  One of Loesch’s most memorable points is that many of our political leaders have forgotten where they have come from, failing to remember the values of Flyover Nation in attempts to appeal the agendas of the coastal elite. Of course, not all coastals or cities are brainwashed but the majority of coastals are always trying to coax those of Flyover Nation into their lifestyle.

  It is important to be careful, Loesch warns, saying “So take the kids to DC– just for a short trip. Soak up that pride in the American dream, and carry it home in your hearts. Because DC is not the heart of America–Flyover Nation is. And spare a thought for the folks you see scurrying in and out of the government buildings in Washington, the folks who’ve been there too long. Maybe they had dreams once too. They were like those bugs I saw droning toward the zapper on my grandparents’ porch– they got sucked in and had the life zapped out of them.”

  Flyover Nation is a shout out to all the small town cities across America and the people that America is really made up of, the people that the media forgets and ignores. Dana Loesch brings an impressive array of fiery common sense arguments against the coastal elite that makes for a great read as well as a fun one.

  Original CBC review by Auberon Crocker.

• Publishers Weekly Online
  http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-399-56388-1
  Word count: 224

  QUOTED: "The author's proud rhetoric, which will please fans, will not win over those on the other side of the aisle."

  According to right-wing radio and television host Loesch (Hands Off My Gun), in terms of political affiliation and cultural differences, America comprises two separate "nations": the liberal elites of the East and West Coast, and the conservative "flyover nation" that encompasses the rest of the continental states. Loesch's unapologetic defense of middle America breaks down the current problems in the country with much flair and sass. Part political commentary and part autobiography, the book at times gets bogged down in the author's generalizations, which pin many of the country's ills squarely on those who live and breathe on either coast, but she shines when writing about her childhood, tying her rural Ozark upbringing and Christian faith to her political change of heart in her early 20s. Loesch urges coastal elites to heed the values of people with upbringings like hers, and not to belittle and ignore those whom President Obama once described as "bitter" in clinging to guns and religion. The author's proud rhetoric, which will please fans, will not win over those on the other side of the aisle, and it also runs the risk of alienating otherwise sympathetic readers living on either of the dreaded coasts. (June)

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