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Wyden, Peter and Barbara Growing Up Straight/What Every Thoughtful Parent Should Know About Homosexuality by Wyden, Peter and Barbara
New York Stein and Day Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Hardcover/Ex-Library Fair
Reading Copy Only/No Jacket NOISBN npd., c. 1968, reddish/brown cloth, 253pp., 8vo - over 7'' - 9'' tall, (wear to head+heel of spine+edges+corners bumped, spine taped, sticker residue upper back, inside flaps of d.j. cut and taped into front cover, last blank page cut out, some pages creased to corners, text clean, binding good)
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Dan Rather; Peter Wyden I Remember
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Little Brown & Co (T) 1991 0316734403 / 9780316734400 First Edition Hardcover Fine Near Fine
0316734403 0316734403 Illustrated with black and white photographs. So you think you know Dan Rather: strong-mided, hard driving, a bit formal, the compelling anchorman behind the desk. Stop the cameras! Here, in I REMEMBER, is Danny Rather, known to a few: a barefoot boy growing up outside Houston in a large and loving family determined to rise above hard times, struggling to play high school football after five years abed with rheumatic fever; watching relatives and family friends march off to fight in World War 11 as the country reels under the impact of Pearl Harbor. This is the story of how Danny Rather, an impish Tom Sawyer, became Dan Rather; of the events and values that made him who he is today, even as they also formed our country as we now know it. Danny Rather"s grandmother Page introduced him to the world by reading the Sears catalog aloud. Later, he broke into the news business hawking the Sunday Houston Chronicle on a street corner he had to defend with his fists - useful training for a career in television, as he notes wisely and wryly. Later still, Edward R Murrow"s broadcasts from war-torn London would fuel his dreams of becoming a foreign correspondent. Danny"s father, Irvin "Rags" Rather, dug up ditches as an oil pipeliner; his life"s commandments, which he dinned into his son, were "Up from the ditch" and "Rathers never quit." These lessons would serve Dan Rather well as he became a famous newsman with a reputation for tenacity and fair-mindeness. While times were tough in America during the late thirties and early forties, and the country lived under the shadow of war, our nation during that era was still in many ways a more innocent place, and Dan Rather re-creates that world vividly for us here. Come along as he recalls visits to his grandmother"s farm in rural Texas, the family gathered around the radio in the evening for FDR"s fireside chats, five-cent Saturday-afternoon movies, and a colorful cast of Texas characters. Uncle Corbin, a railroad engineer, taught Danny train songs by the carload, fueling his desire to see the world. His high school football coach, Lamar Camp, instilled in him the meaning of the word "tough," the importance of heart, of getting up when you"re down - again, good training for a reporter who would go on to cover the major recent crises: from John F Kennedy"s assassination, to Vietnam, to Afghanistan, to the recent Gulf War. I REMEMBER tells you where Dan Rather came from and who he really is. His fond, moving memories of his life and world will evoke nostalgic resonance for anyone who lived through that time, who wonders about the kinder, gentler nation of fifty years ago - or who remembers his or her own beginnings. In I REMEMBER, Dan Rather shares his America - and ours.
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