Out of This World: A Young International Official Lives Two Lives on the Job As Rebel Against United Nations Bureaucracy, Off the Job As Chronicler of Thai Life

by Peter H. Michael

Michael, Peter H.

336 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Peter H. Michael is most recently the author of Running on Empty: Along an Epic 12,000-Mile Road Trip America Has Its Say on Economic Inequality, his seventh book. Running on Empty was awarded two 2015 national book prizes, one in travel essays, the other in political and economic affairs. He also writes newspaper, magazine and op-ed articles. Michael serves as publisher of Underground Railroad Free Press, the nation's top Underground Railroad news publication, and of Free Press Books.

Peter Michael was educated at the University of Maryland, Berkeley and Princeton, and is the seventh generation of his family to reside at Maryland's Cooling Springs Farm, a national Underground Railroad historic site founded by the family in 1768.