Man in Motion |
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Author:
| Sinsheimer, Warren J. |
ISBN: | 978-0-692-78971-1 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2016 |
Publisher: | Sinsheimer Literary, LLC
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $26.95 |
Book Description:
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Two important events occurred on May 22, 1927: Charles A. Lindbergh successfully flew from New York to Paris in a single-engine aircraft, and Warren J. Sinsheimer was born. This is Warren's story, imprinted with his own transatlantic travels. For nearly 35 years Warren crisscrossed the Atlantic by Concorde, Pan Am Stratocruiser, and Queen Mary ocean liner, serving in senior roles at the Plessey Corporation. At its peak, Plessey employed more than 80,000 people and became the undisputed...
More DescriptionTwo important events occurred on May 22, 1927: Charles A. Lindbergh successfully flew from New York to Paris in a single-engine aircraft, and Warren J. Sinsheimer was born. This is Warren's story, imprinted with his own transatlantic travels. For nearly 35 years Warren crisscrossed the Atlantic by Concorde, Pan Am Stratocruiser, and Queen Mary ocean liner, serving in senior roles at the Plessey Corporation. At its peak, Plessey employed more than 80,000 people and became the undisputed technological innovator of the British electronics industry. Much of this memoir was written in the Concorde Lounge at JFK in 1989, the year that a consortium of GEC and Siemens completed a hostile takeover. Man in Motion is thus a first-hand account of the rise and fall of an industrial behemoth; as with all good stories, this one has heroes and villains, heady successes and devastating failures. Now, however, more than 25 years later, Warren has augmented what he wrote then to give a fuller account of his life. At 15 Warren enrolled at The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina; at 25 he served as the Staff Judge Advocate of a B-29 Air Force base in Japan during the Korean War; at 28 he was appointed the first CEO of the North American subsidiary of Plessey; and at 38 he was elected to the New York State Assembly. In between he met and married the love of his life and started a family that continues to grow. Warren also used his legal expertise to help his fellow man. In 1993 he endowed the Sinsheimer Service Scholarship at NYU Law School in the hope that the brightest students would devote themselves to not-for-profit legal work. And in 1999, long past when most men retire, Warren founded Partnership for Children's Rights to ensure that low-income disabled children receive the education they are legally due. PFCR now handles over 500 matters per year. This is the story of a man who has truly lived his life in motion.