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If you know of a disabled child or teenager interested in art, design or astronomy, get "Of Firebirds & Moonmen".  It was written by the designer of America's most futuristic car, the gas turbine powered General Motors Firebird III. The author-designer-astronomer, a first generation American whose 'Ellis Island' parents emigrated from Albania during the early 1900s, was stricken with polio as a young teenager in upstate New York. In pursuit of his American dream, he describes in very personal terms his experiences as a teenager and young adult to overcome both his physical disability and shyness. His personal odyssey takes him from Jamestown, New York as a child to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn to General Motors in Detroit to the shores of California's bustling aerospace industry (and everything in between).

The heart of the book takes the reader behind the closed doors of GM Styling during its "Golden Years" and covers the personalities, politics, and inside story on how the once secret Firebird III became a reality. This very inspiring and educational book is ‘must reading’ for creative independent thinkers, American and foreign designers, students who have yet to be spoiled by our education system, automobile buffs, aerospace engineers, space program enthusiasts, astronomers, and any disabled teenager who dares to dream but is currently unsure of his or her own potential.

 It should be placed in every school library in the United States and read by every designer in America and abroad who has allowed today's computer technology and education system to trump the basics and fundamentals of creative "natural" design as taught by the "Old School."