What Happened?
Table of Contents:
- About the Authors
- Foreward: Vivek Krishnamurthy
- Prologue: Anguish in the Adirondacks
- Chapter 1: The Great Law of Peace
- Chapter 2: Forever Wild
- Chapter 3: This Land Is MY Land
- Chapter 4: Mario Cuomo to the Rescue
- Chapter 5: Let the Games Begin – 1976
- Chapter 6: Flies in the Ointment
- Chapter 7: “Trust”
- Chapter 8: Road Block
- Chapter 9: Trouble in Paradise
- Chapter 10: A Precarious Peace
- Epilogue
- Chronology
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
Forward
Meet the Authors:
Louis Grumet:
As a top aide to then-New York Secretary of State Mario Cuomo, Lou Grumet was the state’s lead envoy in negotiating with the Mohawk following the Moss Lake invasion of 1974. Over the span of three years and dozens of negotiating sessions, Grumet played a key role in persuading the Mohawk to de-occupy the Adirondack camp they had seized and to move to a different location in another county. He knows the inside story better than virtually anyone, for the simple reason that he is the inside story.
After serving as special assistant to Secretary Cuomo and his representative in matters dealing with disabled individuals, Grumet was appointed Assistant Commissioner for the Education of Children with Handicapping Conditions for the New York State Education Department. In that role, Grumet was instrumental in establishing the Department as a major quality monitoring force in enforcing standards for education for the disabled.
Grumet has also held top not for profit sector positions. He served as executive director of the New York State School Boards Association, and in that capacity sued then-Governor Cuomo in a case that went to the U.S. Supreme Court and resulted in his prior book, The Curious Case of Kiryas Joel, co-authored with John Caher.
Grumet earned his juris doctorate from New York University Law School, his master’s degree in public administration from the University of Pittsburgh, and his bachelor’s in public policy from George Washington University.
John M. Caher:
John M. Caher, a professional writer for three decades and the author or co-author of six other books, has published approximately 12,000 by-lined articles in newspapers, magazines and journals. A former newspaper reporter and editor, Caher’s books include The Curious Case of Kiryas Joel (with Lou Grumet), Personal Bankruptcy Laws for Dummies (with James P. Caher, Esq.); King of the Mountain, a biography of former New York Chief Judge Sol Wachtler, A Time for Reflection, an autobiography of a former government and business legend, William E. Simon. He is the also the prime author and producer of a Telly Award-winning PBS documentary, A Bridge to Justice: The Life of Franklin H. Williams and co-author with anthropologist Enid Gort of a forthcoming biography of Ambassador Williams.
Caher holds a journalism degree from Syracuse University and a master’s degree in technical communications/ graphics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His reporting has garnered more than 20 awards, including prestigious honors from the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association. He is a former communications director for a state criminal justice agency and is currently employed by the New York State Unified Court System as Senior Advisor for Strategic and Technical Communications.
Vivek Krishnamurthy:
Vivek Krishnamurthy is the Samuelson-Glushko Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa and Director of CIPPIC—the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic. Vivek is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Yale Law School, and the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is currently a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, an Affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and a Senior Associate of the Human Rights Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C