From the book jacket:

While others were talking about it, Bernard Bierman was doing it... and now he has done it. A Translator-Warrior Speaks is the only available history of America's largest and foremost organization of translators, told by a man who was there practically from the start.

Born to a family of translators, Bernard Bierman takes the reader back the the days before the American Translators Association existed and traces its history from the day when a small group of New York translators met at New York University to the day when the FBI knocked on the door of the Association's President-elect.

A Translator-Warrior Speaks not only recounts the early history of the ATA, but also describes the dreams and struggles of translators for a place in the sun. Indeed, this book is about people, their hopes and aspirations, their fears and jealousies, their victories and defeats.

Written by a man who was admired and respected by many, but also feared and disliked by others, A Translator-Warrior Speaks opens the bolted doors to the Board room and committee rooms to air the words and actions that helped shape an organization and the translation profession in America.