Time Present, Time Past:; A Memoir

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. very good/very good. 25 cm, xvi, 442 pages, index. Slight wear to DJ edges, slight soiling to rear DJ. Inscribed by the author. Time Present, Time Past, is an exceptional memoir about growing up in Missouri, going to Princeton, and, above all, serving in the Senate. It is a political book, but not a politician's book. Rather, it is the work of a writer who happens to be a politician. Intelligent, surprisingly candid, and exceptionally well written, it is a love letter to America from someone who is aware of this country's weaknesses and contradictions, but who is still optimistic about the future. When Bradley, at 52 a young man by Senate standards, announced he would not run for reelection. Married, with a college-age daughter, he has said that he never thought of himself as a Capitol Hill lifer, and that, while he liked being a senator, he was worn out by the need to spend so much time raising money. He was also underwhelmed by the idea of working as a member of a minority fighting the new conservatism. But he planned to remain in the public arena and was clearly thinking of the future and of a moment when it might yet be time for him to go tarmac to tarmac. William Warren "Bill" Bradley (born July 28, 1943) is an American former professional basketball player and politician. He served three terms as a Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party's nomination for President in the 2000 election.Bradley was born and raised in Crystal City, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and excelled at basketball from an early age. He was offered 75 college scholarships, but declined them all to attend Princeton University. He earned a gold medal as a member of the 1964 Olympic basketball team and was the NCAA Player of the Year in 1965, when Princeton finished third in the NCAA Tournament. After graduating in 1965, he attended Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, delaying a decision for two years on whether or not to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA).While at Oxford, Bradley played one season of professional basketball in Europe, and eventually decided to join the New York Knicks in the 1967-68 season, after serving six months in the Air Force Reserve. He spent his entire ten-year professional basketball career playing for the Knicks, winning two championship titles. Retiring in 1977, he ran for a seat in the United States Senate the following year, from his adopted home state of New Jersey. He was re-elected in 1984 and 1990, and left the Senate in 1997.Bradley is the author of seven non-fiction books, most recently We Can All Do Better, and hosts a weekly radio show, American Voices, on Sirius Satellite Radio. He is a corporate director of Starbucks and a partner at investment bank Allen & Company in New York City. Bradley is a member of the ReFormers Caucus of Issue One. In 2008 Bradley was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.