Who run it) leads him along a career path farĭifferent from anything he had planned.
Recession-ravaged economy (and the people The experience of falling victim to America’s To a reinvented and reinvigorated individual Of death, to a laid-off corporate executive whoĮxperiences not working as a kind of death, He traces his evolution fromĪ rebellious youth who sees working as a kind His adventures on the road to finding meaning Uprising at Columbia University-chronicles Statement, an account of the 1968 student Diary of a Company Manwill be a revelation not only to baby boomersbut to young people trying to figure out whatto do with their lives.ĭiary of a Company Man: Losing A Job, Finding A Life Afteryears of making a living, Kunen finally learnshow to make a life. He traces his evolution froma rebellious youth who sees working as a kindof death, to a laid-off corporate executive whoexperiences not working as a kind of death,to a reinvented and reinvigorated individualwho discovers something important andmeaningful to do.The experience of falling victim to America'srecession-ravaged economy (and the peoplewho run it) leads him along a career path fardifferent from anything he had planned. Kunen-author of The StrawberryStatement, an account of the 1968 studentuprising at Columbia University-chronicleshis adventures on the road to finding meaningin work and life. Kunen-author of The StrawberryStatement, an acco.) Kunen has also written articles for The New Yorker, People, Newsday, and New York Times Magazine, among other notable publications.Īfter losing employment with Time Warner as Director of Communications, after working with them for two decades, he wrote a book called "Diary of a Company Manitoba: Losing a Job: Finding Life," published in January 2012.ĭiary of a Company Man : Losing a Job, Finding a Life(Hardback) - 2012 Edition His experiences in criminal courts led to his writing "How Can You Defend Those People?", which was published by Random House in 1983.Īfter leaving the Public Defender Service in Washington, Kunen worked as an editorial page editor at Newsday on Long Island before joining PEOPLE magazine as a writer and editors His coverage for PEOPLE of the nation"s worst drunk driving crash spurred him to write his fourth book, Reckless Disregard: Corporate Greed, Government Indifference and the Kentucky School Business Crash. This experience led to his second published work, Standard Operating Procedure. This experience led him to write The Strawberry Statement, documenting the university"s controversial involvement with the government"s Institute for Defense Analyses.Īfter graduating from Columbia, he became a field journalist from Vietnam for TRUE magazine. James Simon Kunen was an alumnus of Phillips Academy.
He is best known as the author of The Strawberry Statement, a first-person documentary of the Columbia University protests of 1968.
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