Lost in the dusty Inca ruins of Peru at age 6, tattooed by
head-hunters in the jungles of Borneo at age 12, luxuriated
lasciviously and flirted with pro-Castro revolutionaries in a
corrupt pre-Castro Havana, wrestled a Bengal tiger, lived beneath
the iron curtain's shadow in occupied Trieste, witnessed the
astounding mid-hurricane Atlantic rescue of hundreds of passengers
and sailors from a burning ship.
An atypical upbringing meant atypical experiences. Stephen
Baldwin's ordinary world involved living with very rich and very
famous relatives and friends, including Adlai Stevenson, Richard
Nixon, and the Washington Post's Phil and Kaye Graham. He explored
virtually unknown temples in Angkor and Rangoon, routinely
crisscrossed oceans in luxury liners that fully lived up to their
promise, ran with the bulls in Pamplona when he was 20, was
instrumental in saving thousands clinging to life after a
cataclysmic tidal wave and cyclone in Bangladesh, then in setting
up an underground railway for Bengali leaders escaping from
Pakistani genocide, finally escaping to carry that story to the
outside world.
It is true that there are few undiscovered wildernesses today.
Transportation and communication advances have blazingly brought
everything close to us, but in that process nearly everything has
been rendered commonplace. Yet much of the world was neither close
nor common a mere 60 years ago, and Stephen had a front row seat to
the spectacle-sometimes getting too close to the fire.
Shadows Over Sundials chronicles the astonishing adventures of a
Foreign Service brat who later worked in poor countries for The
Ford Foundation, Population Council, and United Nations,
spearheading international development, then went on to tackle
seemingly intractable problems in inner-city education, first as a
New York City Teaching Fellow in a failing South Bronx elementary
school, finally as Board Chair of a charter school he helped
establish there to do it better.
Mr. Baldwin is married to Barbara Radloff, has five children,
and lives in New York City and Redding, Connecticut.
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