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Jeff Golden attended Harvard University as a National Scholar during the height of the Vietnam War and decided to swap the Ivy Halls for 20 acres in the backwoods of Oregon and a used chainsaw. He chronicled that journey in the book Watermelon Summer (Lippincott & Co, 1971). After a decade building homes, guiding whitewater river trips, and working in the forests of the Cascade Mountains, Jeff dropped back in to earn a Masters in Communications degree from Stanford University.

He has spent the last 25 years in politics, broadcasting and editorial journalism and organizational consulting. His political career includes service as a Jackson County (OR) Commissioner, Chief of Staff to the Oregon Senate President, and Environmental Policy aide to
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What are we ready for?

Find someone who will disagree with this: the state of our national leadership is miserable. Current events in D.C. are almost painful to watch.

But after all our complaining, however well justified, what kind of leadership are we actually ready for? I set out to explore that in the writing of UNAFRAID, and I especially appreciate readers' reflections on that question in particular.

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Published on October 14, 2013 15:46 Tags: citizenship, gmos, leadership, what-are-we-ready-for
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