James Baar

James Baar (born February 9, 1929 in New York City) is an author, international corporate communications consultant, corporate communications software developer, blogger, former business executive and Washington journalist and sometime college lecturer.

He is currently completing with Donald E. Creamer "But Wait! There’s More! (maybe)", a book on the advertising agency business’ Golden Age and current increasing chaos.

Biography

Baar, after graduation from Union College, began his newspaper career on The Record in Troy, New York where he “specialized in reporting obits, church notices and the occasional arson.” He graduated to the United Press and subsequently was a reporter and editor in the UPI Washington Bureau and Senior Editor of "Missiles & Rockets Magazine".

In his later business career, Baar has been Chief Operating Officer in four major public relations agencies: Hill & Knowlton Advanced Technology, Gray-Strayton, Creamer Dickson Basford and Lewis & Gilman. He also was Corporate Communications Officer of Computervision, Managing Director of General Electric’s European Communications Operation and manager of various GE PR operations in the United States.

Baar was graduated from Union College in 1949 where he majored in philosophy. He and his wife, Beverly, live in --Providence, Rhode Island] .

Published works

*"Polaris!" (with William E Howard, 1960)
*"Combat Missileman" (with William E Howard, 1961)
*"The Great Free Enterprise Gambit" (1980)
*"The Careful Voters Dictionary of Language Pollution (Understanding Willietalk and Other Spinspeak)" (1999)
*"Spinspeak II: The Dictionary of Language Pollution" (2004)
*"Ultimate Severance (2005)

Short fiction including "The Real Thing", "Believe Me!", "Somewhere on the Elbe" and "In the Gulf"

References

1. "Who’s Who in America"

2. Amazon Books and Amazon Short [http://www.amazon.com]

External links

* [http://www.spinspeak.com/ The Spinspeak Letter]