Doug Bradley is an author, educator, and veteran who splits his time with family in Wisconsin and Arizona. Professionally, Doug spent more than 30 years working for the University of Wisconsin in communications; media and public relations; marketing; and local, state, and federal stakeholder relations. For eight years he and UW-Professor Craig Werner taught a highly popular course at the UW entitled “The U. S. in Vietnam: Music, Media, and Mayhem.”
He has blogged for PBS’s Next Avenue and The Huffington Post, taught at UW-Madison, Baldwin-Wallace University, Edgewood College, and Arizona State University, and is the author of three books grounded in the Vietnam experience, including DEROS Vietnam: Dispatches from the Air-Conditioned Jungle, Who’ll Stop the Rain: Respect, Remembrance, and Reconciliation in Post-Vietnam America, and co-author of We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War, named the Best Music Book of 2015 by Rolling Stone magazine. Doug has been happily married to retired attorney Pam Shannon for 49 years. They are the parents of two grown children and four grandchildren.