Edition:
First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]
Publisher:
PublicAffairs
Published:
2009
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17561645317
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Peter Serling (Jacket photograph) Very good in Very good jacket. xi, [1], 363, [9] pages. Signed by the author on the title page. Michael Rosen's seven-year-old son Ripton one day decided to join a pick-up game of baseball with some older kids in the park. At the end of the game Ripton asked his new friends if they wanted to come back to his house for snacks and Nintendo. Over time, five of the boys, all black and Hispanic, from the impoverished neighborhood across the park, became a fixture in the Rosens' home and eventually started referring to Michael and his wife Leslie as their parents. The boys began to see the Rosens as more than just an arcade of middle-class creature comforts; the Rosens began to learn the full stories of the boys' fractured lives. Soon Michael and Leslie decided that their responsibility, like that of parents everywhere, was to help all their boys get a start in life. So began a turbulent learning experience all round, beautifully and movingly depicted in What Else But Home. It's a quest to escape the previously inevitable, a test of the resilience of a newly assembled family, a love story unlike any other, and a celebration of the fact that, whatever our differences, baseball and commitment can help us bridge them. Dr. Michael Rosen is an entrepreneur, business executive, investor, property owner and writer, a former banker, real estate developer, and professor. In New York City, where he lived for nearly thirty years, he was CEO and principal owner of Oscar Gruss & Son Incorporated, a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange specializing in investment banking, sell-side merger arbitrage, institutional brokerage, and trading. He pioneered luxury residential rental in Manhattan's Lower East Side and thereafter acquired a portfolio of Lower East Side mixed-use residential properties, most of which he retains ownership in. Upon moving to New York, Rosen was an Assistant Professor in the Management Department of NYU's business school, where he published extensively and as junior faculty was awarded a Presidential Fellowship granting a sabbatical, from which he didn't quite return to an academic career. He is the author of What Else But Home: Seven Boys and an American Journey Between the Projects and the Penthouse and Turning Words, Spinning Worlds: Chapters in Organizational Ethnography. Rosen holds a PhD, MBA and MA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and an MS in Social Anthropology and BA from its School of Arts & Sciences.
