James Harvey, husband and father, has been a bartender, truck driver, boxer, public speaker, university official, and presidential speechwriter. A native of Donegal, Ireland, he was educated in England, Ireland, and the United States. Early in his professional career, he served on the staff of the U.S. Congress and as a lobbyist for the Carter White House. A graduate of Villanova University, he has trained school superintendents in the United States, lectured on education all over the world, and holds a master’s degree in history from the University of Pittsburgh and a doctorate from Seattle University.