COURTESY OF DAVID HUME KENNERLY
DONALD RUMSFELD served as a member of Congress, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, White House Chief of Staff, Middle East Envoy, and CEO of two Fortune 500 companies, and was the thirteenth and twenty-first United States Secretary of Defense. He currently chairs the Rumsfeld Foundation, which encourages leadership, public service, and free political and economic systems at home and abroad. He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, Known and Unknown and Rumsfeld’s Rules. He and his wife, Joyce, have three children, seven grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
Donald Rumsfeld is donating his profits from the sales of When the Center Held to the Rumsfeld Foundation’s Graduate Fellowship Program, which provides grants to exceptional graduate-level scholars who have an interest in serving the nation.