Welcome to my Amazon 'Author Central' Biography. I grew up in Northern California and moved to Alaska -- seeking adventure and getting it by the glacier-full -- in 1972. After a long career as a lawyer and judge -- 39 years -- I returned to my original passion, history. Research and writing British and American Foundings of Parliamentary Science, 1774-1801 extended over 10 years, travelling to the United Kingdom six times in the two years before I completed the book. I was fortunate to have met many people who took an interest in the project. It is the first study to bring into one focus the work of Thomas Jefferson and John Hatsell, both of whom wrote in the area of parliamentary science. The project sheds light on my interests leading up to project's coming to maturity. For example, I have written and lectured extensively in the area of corporate meeting governance and especially the importance of well-developed by-laws in business and non-profit corporations. A bumper sticker recapitulating my interests would read: 'I brake for technical details.' If this doesn't sound like the standard fare for an author's biography, that's because I'm not an off-the-shelf kind of guy. To give you another insight. On 6 November 2017 I had the pleasure of hearing my translation of a passage in the Iliad read aloud in Drawing Room No. 3 overlooking Parliament Street. It's X:220-226 with the memorable 'two together better see' which inspires Odysseus. This was the opening quotation in my book, translated by yours truly, as they say, and served up at the launch party hosted in London. Parliamentary procedure and practice are like that: flashes of humour, good-natured and sarcastic, by turns, with plenty of room for the well-turned phrase, serving as welcome relief from the bombast and the pompous emptiness that (mostly) white male elites serve up as their daily offerings to the ravenous maw of the media. I hold a research appointment at Purdue University and, as I am happy to say, the best places to find me are in airports from Palma de Mallorca to Los Angeles. The foto displayed was taken before I gave a workshop to students at the Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, in the Partenope University in Napoli. It was a spectacular day, overlooking the Bay of Naples. Vesuvius did not erupt. For an Alaskan, this was a welcome relief from the usual run of volcanic disasters. In closing, I have no reason to hope that you will enjoy the book, unless you take pleasure in the willingness of human beings to engage each other in collaborative behavior, but I have every expectation that you will not be reading another author self-blurbing himself in this fashion. As we say in Italia, Ciao!Read more about this authorRead less about this author