Quiet Diplomat: A Biography of Max M. Fisher [Hardcover]

Peter Golden (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 564 pages
• Publisher: Cornwall Books; 1ST edition (June 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0845348469
• ISBN-13: 978-0845348468
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,954,910 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Peter Golden is an award-winning journalist and the author of six full-length works of non-fiction and fiction.

Some of Peter Golden's work has appeared in the Detroit Free Press Magazine, Albany Times Union, New Jersey Monthly, Microsoft's eDirections, Beyond Computing, Electronic Business, Midstream, The Forward, and Capital Region Magazine.

Golden's Quiet Diplomat, a biography of industrialist and political-insider Max M. Fisher made the Detroit Free Press bestseller list. Among those he interviewed were Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Bush; Secretaries of State Kissinger, Haig, and Shultz; and Israeli Prime Ministers Shamir, Peres, and Rabin.

With J. Stanley Shaw, Golden wrote, I Rest My Case: My Long Journey from the Castle on the Hill to Home, a memoir that chronicles Shaw's life from his childhood years under the supervision of the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum in the 1930s to his career as one of the preeminent bankruptcy attorneys in the United States.

Golden's O Powerful Western Star, a history of the Cold War, will be published in the fall of 2011. For that book, Golden re-interviewed Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, and other world leaders, including Mikhail Gorbachev.

Golden's novel, Comeback Love, will be published the first week of November 2010.

For more on Peter Golden visit http://www.petergolden.com/

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You'll learn much from this book, especially how Max became, March 3, 2005

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Jason Raznick (Birmingham, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Quiet Diplomat: A Biography of Max M. Fisher (Hardcover)

such a successful, caring and genuine person. I am 27 and was always interested in how Max Fisher rose from humble beginnings. This book definitely offers some nice insight into that.
For example, when Max didn't do the work he planned for the day, he would skip a meal.
Anyway, I am just sad I was never able to meet Max in person, because I know he would have been a wonderful mentor, who always had time to lend an ear and offer insight.

4.0 out of 5 stars Recommend, September 28, 2010

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G. J. Coatsworth "tankthecrank" (Southeast Michigan USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Quiet Diplomat: A Biography of Max M. Fisher (Hardcover)

Living in metro Detroit my entire life, Max Fisher was a person who was always in the newspaper. He goes down in history as a man of great accomplishments. Hard work gave him great monetary rewards and he was willing to use his wealth to support causes that gave him pleasure. I believe that metro Detroit is better because of him. It was interesting for me to find out more about him. He is a great role model for people with ambition and drive.

I had no problems with this purchase and would use the store that sold me this book again.