LEADER 04559nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910968265403321 005 20230725032629.0 010 $a9781438439891 010 $a143843989X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781438439891 035 $a(CKB)2670000000150010 035 $a(EBL)3407138 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000688368 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11481495 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000688368 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10760932 035 $a(PQKB)11028899 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407138 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407138 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10573999 035 $a(OCoLC)775362051 035 $a(DE-B1597)684110 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781438439891 035 $a(Perlego)2673854 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000150010 100 $a20110321d2011 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDancing with the queen, marching with King $ethe memoirs of Alexander "Sam" Aldrich /$fSam Aldrich 210 $aAlbany, N.Y. $cExcelsior Editions/State University of New York Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (275 p.) 225 1 $aExcelsior Editions 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a9781438439877 311 08$a1438439873 327 $a""Dancing with the Queen, Marching with King""; ""Dancing with the Queen, Marching with King""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1: Dancing with the Queen""; ""2: Who is SAM?""; ""3: I Have a Dream""; ""4: Marching with King""; ""5: Honored with Deep Roots""; ""6: Education""; ""7: Marriage and Milbank""; ""8: On the Beat""; ""9: Angela???s Pal""; ""10: Was I Officer Krupke?""; ""11: From Minnow in the City to Big Fish in Albany""; ""12: Campaign Loss and Harlem Triumph""; ""13: Rioting 101: A Man and His Plan""; ""14: The Hudson River Valley Commission and Storm King"" 327 $a""15: Board Memberships""""16: Nineteen Years with Nelson""; ""17: Sing Sing""; ""18: Erastus and Me""; ""19: Aboard Strider""; ""20: A Full-time Teaching Career""; ""21: Phyllis""; ""22: A Farmera???s Life for Me?""; ""23: Fatherly Farewell""; ""24: Parks Commissioner""; ""25: The King Funeral""; ""26: The Road to Meadowbrook""; ""Index"" 330 $aWhen he was twenty-five, Sam Aldrich danced with Queen Elizabeth II in London. By the time he was thirty-seven, he was marching with Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma. Recounting the journey between and beyond those two points, and musing over the irony of the contrast they represent, is the subject of this remarkable and entertaining memoir.After a cosseted childhood in New York's silk stocking district, including weekends on Long Island's Gold Coast and summers in Dark Harbor, Maine, Aldrich was expected to follow in his father's footsteps and pursue a career in high finance. "Dancing with the queen of England was just a small function of the privileged life and family into which I was born," he writes, "and events such as this would be a regular part of my upper-class, well-traveled social life." Instead, and to his parents' chagrin, he chose decades of hard work in the public sector, serving as deputy police commissioner in New York City, director of the New York State Division for Youth, executive assistant to Governor Nelson Rockefeller, president of the Brooklyn Center of Long Island University, and commissioner of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, before entering teaching full-time at midlife.Illustrated with photographs from Aldrich's personal collection, this lively memoir offers personal insights into New York State politics and history. Whether working to develop an effective system for rehabilitating juvenile offenders in New York City, trying to find an environmentally sound means for development in the Hudson River Valley, or teaching public policy at SUNY's Empire State College, Aldrich shows what it means to follow one's passions and interests, and to take the gifts one has been given and use them to try to make this world a better place. 410 0$aExcelsior Editions 606 $aLawyers$zNew York (State)$vBiography 607 $aNew York (State)$xPolitics and government$y1951- 615 0$aLawyers 676 $a974.7/043092 676 $aB 700 $aAldrich$b Sam$f1928-$01804247 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910968265403321 996 $aDancing with the queen, marching with King$94352163 997 $aUNINA