Tom Shachtman
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RECENT CORPORATE PROJECTS Earlier in my career, I had the fortunate opportunity of being the co-author on books by Paul G. Stern, CEO of Northern Telecom and of several other companies (STRAIGHT TO THE TOP), and by Clive Chajet, CEO of the most well-known corporate-image firm (IMAGE BY DESIGN). Those "business" books are still in print, in use in classrooms and courses. In 2009-2011 I've been working on three terrific book projects with and for CEOs and ex-CEOs. With the partners of Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers, MRCE, the premier subsurface engineering firm in the world, I wrote a spectacularly illustrated and information-packed book on the firm's 100th anniversary, 100 YEARS OF FOUNDATION ENGINEERING. Privately printed. John L. Tishman, chairman emeritus of Tishman Construction -- whose family firm is even older -- and I have recently completed his memoir, BUILDING TALL: MY LIFE AND THE CREATION OF CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT about John's efforts in managing huge construction projects such as the World Trade Center towers, the Hancock Tower in Chicago, EPCOT at Disney World, the Renaissance Center in Detroit, and Madison Square Garden. BUILDING TALL will be published in the fall of 2011 by University of Michigan Press, in hardcover and digital editions. William J. Dore, founder and former CEO of Global Industries, a company that services offshore oil platforms around the world, asked me to look into the recent court case in which he had taken on Exxon/Mobil, the world's largest company, for polluting his 28-square-miles of southwest Louisiana; the result, TO DO THE RIGHT THING: AN EPIC COURTROOM BATTLE AGAINST BIG OIL OVER THE RESTORATION OF A GULF COAST MARSH is privately published. |
BooksAMERICAN ICONOCLAST: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ERIC HOFFER. Hopewell Publications, 2011. THE FORTY YEARS WAR: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE NEOCONS, FROM NIXON TO OBAMA, written with Len Colodny. HarperCollins, 2009. AIRLIFT TO AMERICA: HOW BARACK OBAMA, SR., JOHN F. KENNEDY, TOM MBOYA, AND 800 EAST AFRICAN STUDENTS CHANGED THEIR WORLD AND OURS. St. Martin's Press, 2009 RUMSPRINGA: TO BE OR NOT TO BE AMISH. North Point Press/Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006 TERRORS AND MARVELS:How Science and Technology Changed the Character and Outcome of World War II. Morrow Books, 2002 In papeback as LABORATORY WARRIORS. I SEEK MY BRETHREN: Ralph Goldman and "The Joint". Newmarket Press, 2001 ABSOLUTE ZERO AND THE CONQUEST OF COLD. Houghton Mifflin, 1999 AROUND THE BLOCK:The Business of a Neighborhood. Harcourt Brace, 1997 THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VILLAGES OF NEW ENGLAND. Thames & Hudson, 1997 THE INARTICULATE SOCIETY: Eloquence and Culture in America, 1995 SKYSCRAPER DREAMS: The Great Real Estate Dynasties of New York. Little Brown, 1991 DECADE OF SHOCKS, 1963-1974: Dallas to Watergate. Poseidon Books, 1983 THE PHONY WAR, 1939-1940. Harper & Row, 1982 EDITH AND WOODROW: A Presidential Romance. Putnam, 1981 THE DAY AMERICA CRASHED. Putnam, 1979 BEACHMASTER: A Story of Daniel au Fond. Henry Holt, 1988 WAVEBENDER: A Story of Daniel au Fond. Henry Holt, 1989 DRIFTWHISTLER: A Story of Daniel au Fond. Henry Holt, 1991. With Robert K. Ressler: WHOEVER FIGHTS MONSTERS, St. Martin's, 1991; JUSTICE IS SERVED, 1992; I HAVE LIVED IN THE MONSTER, 1993. With Shiya Ribowsky: DEAD CENTER, Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office, 2006. With Edmond D. Pope: TORPEDOED: An American Businessman's True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Imprisonment in Russia, and the Battle to Set Him Free. Little, Brown, 2001 With Patrick Reynolds: THE GILDED LEAF: Triumph, Tragedy, and Tobacco: Three Generations of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Family. Little, Brown, 1989 With Robert J. Lamphere: THE FBI-KGB WAR, A Special Agent's Story. Random House, 1986. |
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