Author · Physicist · Vermonter

David D. DodaPh.D.

Wake Forest '71 · 1970 ACC Champions

Stories of the generation that changed everything — one street, one season, one decade at a time.

Memoirs about the Baby Boom generation, a championship that nobody saw coming, and the decades that made us who we are. Written from a farmhouse in Brookfield, Vermont.

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The Books

Two memoirs. One generation's story.

From a championship locker room in 1970 to a New England kitchen seventy-seven years later — the same hands writing both.

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It's About Time
David D. Doda, Ph.D.

Who We Are

It's About Time

A memoir for the Baby Boom generation. Two parallel lives — his and hers — traced through every decade from the Forties through today. From Kennedy's inauguration to the fall of the Berlin Wall, from the birth control pill to the glass ceiling: the story of how we became who we are.

Paperback & Kindle · Published 2026
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55th Anniv.
No Offense
No Defense
No Hope!
Wake Forest, 1970
David D. Doda, Ph.D.

No Offense, No Defense, No Hope!

The underdog football memoir that shocked college sports

★★★★★ 5.0 · 16 reviews · 100% 5-star

In 1970, while Kent State burned and the draft lottery determined who would go to Vietnam, seventy-three young men on a small Southern campus discovered what they were made of — and brought home the school's first ACC Championship. A story about football, racism, loss, a pioneering female sportswriter, and a year that tested everyone who lived through it.

Paperback & Kindle · 55th Anniversary Edition
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About the Author

One of seventy-six million.

He wrote the "Who Am I" poem at the heart of his second book in 2001. It sat in a drawer for twenty-three years. The books are his answer to that whisper.

Born in New Haven, Connecticut on a June afternoon in 1949, David Doda grew up in the postwar suburbs of Derby, surfed Manasquan at thirteen, and captained his high school football team. He played tight end at Wake Forest on the 1970 ACC championship squad — a team picked dead last in the conference that finished first. After earning a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Florida, he spent fifteen years in the defense industry before founding Earthcare Technologies. He writes from a farmhouse in Brookfield, Vermont, where he lives with his wife Nancy of fifty-five years.

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