It took about one year to write this book, about five years to get started on it and over thirty years to accumulate the information and experience which I have endeavored to outline herein. As I look back over 30 years of this diversified experience I sometimes like to pause and attempt to analyze the several turning points in my own life which took me successively through careers in the fields of law, public office, industry and writing. I have no doubt about it, that it was the preparation and training in public speaking which enabled me, when the time was propitious; ripe for action; when...