Alexander Devolpi

The Fox Millennium Alexander Devolpi

The Fox Millennium is about 1000 years of family history and survival through wars and plagues. It is a documented historical narrative centered about one family named after foxes (Volpi), having originated in Italy and since largely becoming rooted in the United States and Canada. The author, Alexander DeVolpi, as scion of the family, has written this (and other) accounts of the family's origins and settlement in North America. Besides providing details about the author's upbringing, education, and professional career, this book also delves into his father's (Bonaventura) wild history and amazing military career, which included soldiering when the wild West was opened up and with the U. S. Army in the Philippines, where he became a highly decorated top sergeant, and later as a soldier of fortune going into World War I, fighting with the Canadian Princess Pats regiment in France. The best way to convey the book's contents is to take a look at the Chapters and their contents; THE FOX MILLENNIUMby A. DeVolpi, PhD, LCDR-USNR-R1000 years of family survival through wars and plagues(A documented historical narrative) PREFACECHAPTER I: A MILLENNIUM OF FOXESABOUT FOXES AS MAMMALSANCIENT HUMAN HISTORY, PRE-ROMAN TO ROMAN ERACHAPTER II: THE ITALIAN ERACHAPTER III: WHAT'S IN A NAME?CHAPTER IV: HERITAGE AND UPBRINGINGTHIS SAGA, AN EARLIER BOOK, AND NOW THIS BOOKAUTHOR'S UPBRINGING, EARLY ONEDUCATION AND SUMMERS IN VIRGINIACHAPTER V: U. S. NAVY MILITARY SERVICEPOST-GRAD YEARS: BLACKSBURG, VIRGINIACHAPTER VI: ARGONNEEISENHOWER ATOMS FOR PEACE PROGRAMARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORYCHAPTER VII: CHICAGO-AREA PUBLICCHICAGO ALLIANCE TO END REPRESSIONORIGIN OF CHICAGO'S ALLIANCE TO END REPRESSIONCHICAGO'S AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNIONCHAPTER VIII: WARS AND PEACETHE WARS IN VIETNAMCHAPTER IX: INTERNATIONAL POLITICSBILATERAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARMS CONTROLARMS-CONTROL TREATY VERIFICATIONCOOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTIONCHAPTER X: DOMESTIC POLITICS AND ACTIVITIESTHE "PROGRESSIVE CASE"JOHN BOLTON AND SECURITY-CLASSIFICATION INFORMATIONANOTHER DECADE OF MY ACTIVISMFAMILY TIMETHE G. W. BUSH WAR YEARSMY UNOFFICIAL INVOLVEMENTS AT ARGONNEBOOKS PUBLISHED SINCE RETIREMENTPOST-RETIREMENT QUASI-OFFICIAL ACTIVITIESCALIFORNIA, HERE I COMEPERSONAL AND FAMILY MATTERSCHAPTER XI: A WEST-COAST PERSPECTIVERELOCATION TO CALIFORNIACHEERING FROM THE SIDELINESPESTILENCE AND VIRUSESThe author graduated from college with a journalism degree, and served as an officer in the U. S. Navy, subsequently earning a Masters degree in nuclear engineering and PhD degree in physics. That formal education and eventual 40-year professional technical experience, had made the author well-suited to knowledgeably present this narrative about his and his father's respective historical journeys. Having thoroughly researched biographical details about his father's achievements and liasons, he became well informed about his father's mysterious history. career and missteps. In addition, this book relates some information about modern arms control, such that the author's nuclear education and career in research and technology makes him especially qualified to report on nuclear weaponization and international proliferation. The author himself became actively involved in local, national, and international politics. Enough background material is provided for the reader to understand the author's professional qualifications and to appreciate the relevant experiences that he underwent.