2010, ISBN: 9781858110660

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New York, NY: Franklin Watts, 1984. Uncorrected Advance Proofs bound for reviewing convenience. Trade paperback. Very good. Signed by author. DJ has some wear and soiling. Inscribed to D… More...

New York, NY: Franklin Watts, 1984. Uncorrected Advance Proofs bound for reviewing convenience. Trade paperback. Very good. Signed by author. DJ has some wear and soiling. Inscribed to DIck Harwood, believed to be ex-Marine and Washington Post reporter and editor. One page of ephemera laid in with note signed Jack to Dick.. [12], 226, [8] p. From Wikipedia: "John Parsons Wheeler, III (December 14, 1944 c. December 30, 2010), known as Jack Wheeler, was a chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, senior planner for Amtrak (1971 1972), official of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1978 1986), chief executive and CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, consultant to the Mitre Corporation (2009 death), member of the Council on Foreign Relations along with Philip Lader(Evergreen International Aviation), and a presidential aide to the Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush administrations. He also held numerous other positions in the United States military, government, and corporations. John Parsons Wheeler, III, descended from a family of military professionals which included Joseph Wheeler, who had served as a general both in the Confederate Army, and later with the United States Army. Wheeler, III, was born in Laredo, Texas, where his mother, Janet Conly Wheeler, was staying with her mother while his father was in Europe. Five days after the delivery, the family received a telegram that his father was missing in action in the Battle of the Bulge. His father was later found to be alive. ]Wheeler was a member of the United States Military Academy class of 1966 which lost thirty of its members in the Vietnam War. After graduating from West Point, he was a fire control platoon leader at a MIM-14 Nike-Hercules base at Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, from 1966 to 1967. From 1967 to 1969 he was a graduate student at Harvard Business School spending the summer of 1968 as a systems analyst for the Office of Secretary of Defense in Washington, D.C. From 1969 to 1970, he served in a non-combat position at Long Binh in Vietnam. From 1970to 1971 he served on the General Staff at The Pentagon Wheeler's West Point and later years are featured prominently in Rick Atkinson's book, The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966. After leaving the military he was a senior planner for Amtrak in 1971 and 1972. From 1972 to 1975 he attended law school at Yale University becoming a clerk for George E. MacKinnon in 1975 76 and an associate for Shea & Gardner in 1976 78. From 1978 to 1986 he was Assistant General Counsel, Special Counsel to Chairman, and Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission. From 1979 to 1989, Wheeler was chairman of Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund that built the Vietnam Veterans Memorial which opened in 1982. Working with Jan Scruggs, he had supported the controversial Maya Lin design, which was opposed by Ross Perot and Jim Webb, who tried to oust him as chairman of the memorial. Wheeler worked to address their issues by adding The Three Soldiers sculpture by Frederick Hart to the memorial. In 1983, Carlton Sherwood ran a four-part series on WDVM-TV (now WUSA) "Vietnam Memorial: A Broken Promise? " which focused on Wheeler's handling of the Memorial Fund, claiming that most of the $9 million raised for the memorial was improperly accounted. Sherwood cast aspersions on Wheeler's career questioning his decision not to go directly to Vietnam out of West Point and noting he had been disciplined shortly after arriving in Vietnam in 1969 for "misappropriation" of government property. A General Accounting Office audit spurred by the television report cleared Wheeler. WMDV made an on-air apology and donated $50, 000 to the memorial. In 1984, Wheeler published a memoir, Touched with Fire: The Future of the Vietnam Generation. In the 1988 television film To Heal a Nation about the construction of the Vietnam Memorial, Wheeler was played by Marshall Colt, four years his junior and the former co-star with James Arness in the crime drama McClain's Law. Eric Roberts portrayed Jan Scruggs and Glynnis O'Connor, Becky Scruggs', Jan's wife. In 1988 89, Wheeler worked with George H.W. Bush to establish the Earth Conservation Corps. From 1997 to 2001, he was President and CEO, Deafness Research Foundation. He was consultant to acting Under., Franklin Watts, 1984, 3, XPL Publishing. Paperback. Used; Good. Ex-library **Simply Brit** Shipped with Premium postal service within 24 hours from the UK with impressive delivery time. We have dispatched from our book depository; items of good condition to over ten million satisfied customers worldwide. We are committed to providing you with reliable and efficient service at all times. 05/01/1996, XPL Publishing, 2.5<