Norman E. Tutorow

Dr. Norman E. Tutorow holds degrees from several institutions of higher education, including an A.A. in Spanish (Foothill College), A.B. in Philosophy (San Diego State University), M.A. in philosophy (Stanford University), M.A. in history (San José State University), M.A. in German (Stanford University), and Ph.D. in history (Stanford University).

His doctoral studies included classical Greek (one of his Ph.D. languages), Jewish Bible Hebrew and Aramaic, ancient and medieval history, and Church History.

The writer has blended careers in government, academia, search and writing, and international lecturing. He taught history and philosophy at two universities and two colleges, served as Chief of the Archives Branch at the Los Angeles Federal Records Center, and was Chief, Master Planning Branch, at the Presidio of San Francisco. He was a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University for five years.

He is or has been a member of the California Institute of International Studies, the California Historical Society, the San Mateo County Historical Society, the Sacramento County Historical Society, the San Francisco History Society, the San Francisco Historical Association, the Stanford Historical Society, San Francisco Civil War Roundtable, Westerners International (San Francisco and Sacramento Corrals), and the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry.

The writer’s publications include more than forty professional journal articles, including the following titles in so-called high-I.Q. publications: 1. “Theodicean Eavesdroppings,” 2. “A Mythological Vignette of Gods and Girls,” 3. “A Conversation with Jesus: Excerpts from 'The Autobiography of Jesus (as told to Roman Centurion Cornelius Nepos V),” 4. “How Odd of God,” and 6. “Some Thoughts on Life after Death.

Tutorow’s major books include 1. California: An Illustrated History [with Don E. Fehrenbacher]. 2. Leland Stanford: Man of Many Careers, 3. Texas Annexation and the Mexican War: A Political Study of the Old Northwest, 4. The Mexican﷓American War: An Annotated Bibliography, 5. War Crimes, War Criminals, and War Crimes Trials, 6. James Gillespie Blaine and the Presidency, 7. The Unholy Trilogy Plus One, The Governor: The Life and Legacy of Leland Stanford. Spokane: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2004. 8. The Encounter of Jesus and the Atheist.