Chuck Mansfield

WARTS AND ALL

Good, Bad and Ugly

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Produktbeschreibung

Having reached age four score, Mansfield expressed concern about who might want to read "a geezer's musings." Still, he chose the book's title, WARTS AND ALL, meaning 'the whole thing, not concealing the less attractive parts.' It's about family and friends, wins and losses, triumphs and failures, praise and derision, love and hate, humor and pathos, wisdom and folly, commendation and reproach, conservatism and liberalism, joy and sadness, war and peace and just about anything else. His primary inspiration is the late Dr. Charles Krauthammer, specifically his 2015 book, Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics. Per Amazon, he was "America's preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation." Mansfield considers him a man of unparalleled intellect. The other major inspiration is Mansfield's lifelong friend, classmate and teammate, Tom Kiley, co-author of their acclaimed 2021 book THE PERFECT SEASON: The Untold Story of Chaminade High School's First Undefeated and Untied Varsity Football Team. This work is eclectic non-fiction that is honest, humorous, politically incorrect, no-nonsense and timely. For readers of Mansfield's earlier books, the stories herein may be familiar, for many of them, like Dr. Krauthammer's, derive from ones already published.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 698
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1115g
• ISBN-13: 9798369451762
• Artikelnr.: 75706353

Autorenporträt

Brooklyn-born Chuck Mansfield is a 1962 alumnus
of Chaminade High School (Mineola, N.Y.) where he
served as student body president and salutatorian and
played both offense and defense on its first undefeated
and untied varsity football team. He later served
there as a Development Officer from 1992 until
his retirement in 2015, during which time he was
instrumental in raising $50 million for the school's
capital and annual giving campaigns. In 1966 he
graduated from the College of the Holy Cross with
an A.B. (Sociology) and was commissioned a second
lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. That
November he graduated from The Basic School
in Quantico, Va. Deployed to Vietnam in 1968, he
served as a platoon commander. He was awarded
the Navy Achievement Medal with Combat "V", the
Combat Action Ribbon, the Vietnam Campaign
Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal and the National
Defense Service Medal. In 1976 he received an M.B.A.
(Finance) from New York University, which he earned
by attending evening classes. Later, he graduated from
Manhattan's Actors-in-Advertising Voice-over School.
Throughout his long finance and consulting career
he has also lived and/or worked in Austria, Belgium,
Canada, China, Colombia, England, France, Germany,
Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan,
Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the Philippines,
Russia, Scotland, Singapore, South Korea, Spain
and Switzerland.
A former director/trustee of the mutual funds of
Federated Hermes, Inc., an $846-billion Pittsburghbased
complex listed on the New York Stock Exchange,
he served in that capacity from 1999 through 2020,
chaired the board's audit committee for four years
and currently serves as a director emeritus.
He and his wife Mame have two sons, a daughter, three
grandsons, a granddaughter and a great-grandson,
and reside in Stuart, Fla., and Westhampton Beach,
N.Y.