A Memoir For My Family

About the Book

Roger Kirk’s primary purpose in this memoir is to give his children and anyone else who may be interested a picture of his early years and a notion of what life was like for him and his wife when the children were absent. It describes his work in general and goes into more detail on the dramatic moments in which he was involved, including life in Stalin’s Soviet Union immediately after World War II, the Egyptian seizure of the Suez Canal, the defection of Stalin’s daughter in India, and the war in Vietnam.

About the Author

Alfred H. Moses, a former partner and now senior counsel at Covington & Burling, LLP, Washington, is a co-founder and chief operating officer of Promontory Financial Group and affiliates in Washington. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Romania, 1994-97, and as the President’s Special Emissary for the Cyprus conflict from 1999-2001. In the Carter administration Ambassador Moses served as special counsel and special advisor to the President and was Lead Counsel to the President in the Billygate hearings. From 1976 to 1989 he negotiated the exodus to Israel of Jews from Communist Romania. An honorary national president of the American Jewish Committee, Ambassador Moses presently serves as Chair of UN Watch (Geneva), the Project on Ethnic Relations, the AJC National Advisory Council and in 2006 chaired AJC’s 100th Anniversary Committee