If you were a kid of eight years old and you saw your friends being taken away by the Nazis, you might think Paris was a bad place to be in 1942.If you wore the Star of David, it was.The transition from a beaten Europe to a vibrant United States wasn't always easy. School in Da Bronx, College, the Air Force and finally Corporate America. Big steps and no mother to guide you.For a start Jeannot had to become Gene, the writer of these sparkling, revealing, gutsy, tender, wise, sharp, tolerant, nosy, genial, sad and funny, sly and straight up essais sans frontiers. Gene we're ready to be entertained and streched a bit while we read what you have to say, and admire your ideas.