Books

David is proud to present his two written works:

Unbeloinging: A Portrait of Decency Battling a Rising Tide of Hate (Historium Press, 2026)

Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History (John Wiley and Sons, 2016)

This powerful, emotionally charged novel strips away the myth of an open and enlightened city, exposing the human cost of exclusion and the quiet courage of those who refuse to accept it. A sweeping story of resilience, identity, and the search for belonging-welcome to the City on the Sound, where no one is quite sure where they belong.

Contested Boundaries includes twelve theme-driven essays covering the human and environmental impact of exploration, trade, settlement and industrialization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The work has been widely lauded for making regional history accessible, relevant.

Waterfront as contested space

Contested Boundaries reviewed

Making sense of labor strife

A regional perspective

A notion of contest