Glenn Willett Clark

GLENN WILLETT CLARK is a business lawyer and consulting economist living in McLean, Virginia. He and his brother Nolan recently published the treatise Governments, Markets, and Gas: Public Utility Regulation of Natural Gas — and the Commodity Market Alternatives. He was a student of economics at MIT, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College (1959), a Fulbright Scholar at the Universitat Wien in Austria (1959-60), a Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies (1960), and a graduate of the Yale Law School (1963). A former missionary in the East German Mission, headquartered in Berlin, he currently serves as a special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs.

The High Price of Poetry

Articles/Essays – Volume 17, No. 4

Adolph Hitler was barely one month old when my father, Walter ‘Edward Clark, now still living, was born on 31 May 1889. When he was fifteen, in 1904, Father started to farm on his own in Idaho. Hitler was then a choirboy in Austria, avidly aspiring to become a priest. Only six years earlier, the United States had been engaged in a “splendid little war” on the largest Carribean island — at the enthusiastic urging of William Randolph Hearst and Teddy Roosevelt.