Gary W. Moore Author of Playing with the Enemy www.playingwiththeenemy.com

Robert Perkinson Author of Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire http://search.barnesandnoble.com/

Co-host Roger Clark Partner, Clark, Goldberg & Madruga www.clarkgoldberg.com

Gary W. Moore is a dynamic speaker, award winning author, business leader and musician. He is also the winner of the prestigious Sam Walton Leadership Award and author of the critically acclaimed book, Playing with the Enemy.

Playing with the Enemy is a story about how, in 1940, at just 15 years old, small-town baseball star Gene Moore was signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers, who saw in him the potential to become one of the great catchers of all time. Before that could happen, though, WWII intervened. Gene's story, a surprising paean to the power and humanity of a game, is told here by his son, Gary. His gripping material certainly helps: after several years overseas in the Navy's touring baseball team, Gene was brought back to Louisiana and assigned to guard secret German POWs, whose U-boat was captured just days before the storming of Normandy. There, Gene teaches his German captives how to play baseball, with a number of unintended and life-altering consequences. When Gene's finally able to return home to Sesser, Ill., he's "on crutches, depressed and embarrassed," holing up in the local bar and prompting one bartender to lament, "he's become one of us, when we were hoping he would make us like him." Gene's journey from promise to despair and back again, set against a long war and an even longer post-war recovery, retains every bit of its vitality and relevance, a 20th-century epic that demonstrates how, sometimes, letting go of a dream is the only way to discover one's great fortune.

Robert Perkinson is a professor of American studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His writing has appeared in The Nation, The Progressive, and Boston Review, among other venues. Texas Tough is his first book.

Drawing on convict accounts, official records, and interviews with prisoners, guards, and lawmakers, Robert reveals the Southern roots of our present-day prison colossus. While conventional histories emphasize the North’s rehabilitative approach, he shows how the retributive and profit-driven regime of the South ultimately triumphed. Most provocatively, he argues that just as convict leasing and segregation emerged in response to Reconstruction, so today’s mass incarceration, with its vast racial disparities, must be seen as a backlash against civil rights. Illuminating for the first time the origins of America’s prison juggernaut, Texas Tough points toward a more just and humane future.

Roger Clark is the founding member and managing partner of Clark, Goldberg & Madruga www.clarkgoldberg.com. In his more than 25 years practicing law, Roger has earned a national reputation as a successful trial attorney representing insurers, cable television providers, and small and large businesses in a broad range of business litigation matters. “My philosophy has always been that the attorneys in this law firm must be prepared not just to ‘litigate’ a case, but to try it before a judge or jury, while at the same time keeping the client’s goals and objectives squarely within our sights.” Roger is rated “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell, which is the highest rating that can be bestowed upon an attorney.

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Gary W. Moore
http://www.playingwiththeenemy.com/gwmoore/

Robert Perkinson
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Texas-Tough/Robert-Perkinson/e/9780805080698/?itm=1&USRI=texas+tough

Roger Clark 310-478-0077
Clark, Goldberg & Madruga
www.clarkgoldberg.com/team/rclark.html

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