Category: social commentary

An Illness in America

Sickness is a dangerous Indulgence at my time of life.                                                                                           …

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Life in China in the 1980s: Adrift With a Cormorant Called Kai

Foreign Friend: My Life With The Geniuses Who Made Modern China

  My new book is now available at Amazon: Foreign Friend: My Life with the Geniuses Who Created Modern China For a sample chapter and ordering information, please click: http://www.amazon.com/Foreign-Friend-Geniuses-Modern-1982-1989/dp/0692510478/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1454949998&sr=8-1&keywords=foreign+friend+peter+glassman

Boys in Trouble: An American Epidemic

  Boys in Trouble I WANT a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one.                              – Lord Byron, “Don Juan” For many years I have directed one-week immersion workshops in …

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