The World According to Stoopball: A Bronx Childhood - Softcover

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Joe Callo has written three books on Admiral Lord Nelson, John Paul Jones: America's First Sea Warrior and an autobiography, The Sea Was Always There. He was U.S. editor for Who's Who in Naval History. Before writing full-time, Joe was line producer for the NBC-TV program "Tut: The Boy King" and a senior advertising agency executive. He is a retired Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy Reserve. Joe earned a surface warfare designation during two years of sea duty in the Navy's Atlantic Amphibious Force. He and his wife, Sally, live in New York City. Kat Callo, one of Joe's six children, is a former Reuters correspondent. Her postings included Vietnam, where she set up the Hanoi news bureau, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Belgium. Kat also reported from Afghanistan and Cambodia. She later worked as Senior Vice President at Reuters headquarters in London and subsequently ran a non-profit, Project Mosaic. Kat has published two books and was the ghostwriter of David's Story, the memoir of David Herman, a survivor of Auschwitz and four other concentration camps.