Gary McGath
b. ????
Nationality: American
Historical Period: The 20th Century and Beyond
Gary McGath is a freelance writer and retired software developer. He has written for the Foundation for Economic Education, Aristos, Digital.com, Compute Books, and Medium. His two self-published novels, The Magic Battery and Spells of War, combine fantasy and historical elements. His crowdfunded Files that Last gives advice on preserving digital data. In addition, he has written innumerable “filk” songs and parodies for science fiction fans. He has degrees in computer science from MIT and Purdue.
In The Reading Room:
- The political philosophy of Tolkien ()
- The Marriage of Figaro: Banned in France ()
- Beaumarchais and “The Barber of Seville” ()
- Beethoven and Napoleon: Clash of the Titans ()
- The First Walpurgis Night ()
- Schiller’s Ode to Joy, and Beethoven’s ()
- Wagner and Nazism ()
- The Politics of Music under Louis XIV ()
- Bach's Ode to Caffeine ()
- Authority and Oppression in Verdi’s Operas ()
- The Banning of the Bard ()
- From Hus to Luther: The Challenge to Orthodoxy ()
- Verdi’s Don Carlo: The Beginnings of Religious Liberty ()
- The Marriage of Figaro and the Fall of the Aristocracy ()
- Fidelio: Beethoven’s Hymn to Freedom ()