Author

Thomas Herzfeld

Thomas Herzfeld is a retired teacher and economist from Northern New Jersey. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree with distinction from the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University in 1978. After working briefly for Shell Chemical Co. in a plant in Deer Park, Texas, Herzfeld became a Teaching Fellow at the University of Houston.

There he taught courses in Introductory Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Statistics, Intermediate Microeconomics, and the Economics of Money and Banking. He received his Master of Arts degree there in 1985. He has also taught as an Adjunct Professor at Houston Baptist University, San Jacinto College (Houston), and Bergen Community College (Paramus, New Jersey).

His career included work in retail management in the book business and accounting in wholesale and imported office furniture. For more than two decades, he operated a private tutoring service. During the last decade of his career, he worked as a Mathematics, Accounting, and Statistics tutor for Passaic County Community College (Wanaque and Paterson, New Jersey) and C2 Education (Livingston, New Jersey), where he also taught physics.

Mr. Herzfeld began his professional writing career in June 2017. He joyfully worships God at St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church in Stirling, New Jersey.

His works include:

• Logarithms in 30 Minutes (2017)
• Hypothesis Testing Made More Understandable (2018)
• How to Have a Civil Conversation in an Increasingly Uncivil and Hostile Environment (2018)
• How to Stop the Assault on History (2019)
• Basic Trigonometry Without Memorization (still unpublished) (2019)
• A Leader’s Guide to Maintaining Civility in a Hostile Political Environment (Dorance) (2020)
• It’s Okay to Be Catholic: A Guide for “ex-Catholic” Protestants on Returning to the Universal Church (2020)
• North Jersey Commute 2043: A Tale of the “Green New Deal” (2022)
• Father Tom’s Penance (a novel) (2023)

Many of these titles are available on Amazon as Kindle e-books or paperbacks.