Golden Acorns: Flight from Iran (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780692294291)

Born in 1946, second in a family of six children, in the then sleepy Southern town of Washington, D.C., where secretaries wore white gloves and hats when going to lunch. This, just before the migration of workers from the south expanded government offices. Michael's father's business would take him as a helper into many government buildings, agencies and international Embassy's where, as a curious adolescent, he would glean all he could from the desks of Ed Murrow, U.S.I.A. Radio Free Europe propaganda, many embassy's and the private homes of George Will, Walter Lipmann, Ray Chalk and others. This early exposure to the workings of government led him to Liberal Arts and the study of Political Science at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland and on to a Pre-Law curriculum. Psychology and religious studies became hobbies with copious reading in both disciplines. Descendent from the Rommal's on his mother's side-Irwin, the Desert Fox, and Bishop Oliver, now Saint, on his father's side, there were conflicted spirits in his closet. Ever the adventurous one whether flying planes or riding super motorcycles at excessive speeds, he had to have the hair on fire and ride in the wind to feel at home. In his books he incorporates his adventures and knowledge of people through thousands of intimate interviews in his business career where he had become a National sales director and executive vice-president of a prominent marketing company with tens of millions of dollars in sales productions each year. This is where he met the Shah's nephew and many other unique characters.