About the Author

Frederick William Dame has an international education having studied in the United States of America and Germany. He has eight degrees: undergraduate (two bachelors - History and English); graduate (three master degrees - international relations/political theory, adult education, English cultural studies); and post-graduate (Dr rerum politicarum, Dr. Phil. in Comparativism/Philology, and D. Litt. in world literature. He has taught undergraduate and graduate levels at the University of New Hampshire, for the United States Army, the European Division of the University of Maryland, the Fachhochschule Trier, the Technische Akademie Kaiserslautern, and the Universität Kaiserslautern. Additionally, Mr. Dame has been a regular speaker for the United States Department of Defense Public Schools, Europe, The University of Maryland, Europe the Universität des Saarlandes, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, and the Goethe lnstitut. He has written on topics ranging from architecture and engineering to poetry, politics, cultural history, and music.