Making A Living, Making A Life - Softcover

Daniel Rose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692279725 ISBN 13: 9780692279724

Publisher: Half Moon Press, 2014

Synopsis

Five decades of the best speeches of Daniel Rose, Chairman of Rose Associates. Winner of a number of national Cicero Speech awards, he has spoken at universities throughout the U.S., Europe and Africa on a broad variety of topics: economics, inner city education, racial problems, real estate, food & wine, and housing. "Dan Rose's gifts of analysis and exposition are superb, and I always relish reading him." Jacques Barzun. "Dan Rose has created a body of work that is philosophy at its most useful how does one live a good life." Fareed Zakaria

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About the Author

Daniel Rose was born on October 31, 1929, attended public school in Mount Vernon, NY, then the Horace Mann School and Yale University. He spent the Korean War years as a military intelligence analyst in the U.S. Air Force. During a 60 year career at Rose Associates, of which he is Chairman, he developed such projects as the prize-winning Pentagon City complex in Arlington, VA, the One Financial Center office tower in Boston, MA, and, as a consultant, conceived of and implemented the concept of housing for the performing arts for New York s Manhattan Plaza. Winner of a number of national Cicero speechwriting awards, he has received Honorary Doctorates in Humane Letters from Long Island University; in Engineering from NYU/Polytechnic; and in Science from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as an Expert Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and as an Expert/Consultant to the Commissioner of Education, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. A founding member of the NY Institute for the Humanities, he was also founding Chair of the Forum for Urban Design, Chairman of the national Jewish Community Centers Association, Vice Chairman of the East West Institute, Vice Chairman of the Baltic American Enterprise Fund and is Treasurer of the Police Athletic League. He founded and is Chairman Emeritus of the Harlem Educational Activities Fund. Other honors include the Ernst & Young Man of the Year in Real Estate , the NYC Mayor s Award of Honor for Art & Culture and the W.E.B. Du Bois Award from Harvard University. He serves on multiple corporate and philanthropic boards, has been married for 58 years, has four children and eleven grandchildren.

Edition details

• Publisher: Half Moon Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0692279725
• ISBN 13: 9780692279724
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384