Lessons from Our Fathers - Hardcover

McDermott, Keith

 
9781563527326: Lessons from Our Fathers

Synopsis

Filled with inspirational true tales of father/child relationships, this collection of motivational stories includes anecdotes from the lives of Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, Cal Ripken, Arnold Palmer, Jody Williams, Robert De Niro, and Renee Zelweger, among many others.

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Synopsis

This is an important book written about an important and often ignored subject, the father-child relationship. In writing this book, the author interviewed former Presidents, leaders of civil rights movements, business leaders, rock stars and famous actors and asked them about their relationship with their fathers and what they has learned from them. He chose however, to start his first chapter with the story that Arnold Palmer sent about a lesson he had learned from his father as a young man. It is simple, and yet it has guided Palmer through his life on the world's stage. Among the people who have written passages for this book are President George H. W. Bush; President Jimmy Carter; John Lennon; Jody Williams; Jesse Jackson, Jr; Arthur Donovan; Chris Evert; and Christie Hefner.

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