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This valuable guide provides readers with everything necessary to set up an S-Corporation. Included are extensive guides for planning, all of the legal forms needed for start-up, and an array of accounting and payroll forms for operations.
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A walkthrough of the steps for setting up an S-Corporation.......2004-11-08
Now in its second edition, S-Corporation Small Business Start-Up Kit presents a straightforward, no-nonsense walkthrough of the steps for setting up an S-Corporation. State-by-state outlines of relevant state law, websites and links to state incorporation offices for all 50 states and Washington, D.C., a CD-ROM of over 100 forms (including the Acrobat Reader software needed to view them) to use for setting up a business, complete and in-depth instructions, and much more make S-Corporation Small Business Start-Up Kit an absolute "must-have" for any small business proprietor seeking the benefits of an S-corporation. These benefits include no personal liability for the owner(s), perpetual existence, immunity of business profits to corporate taxes, deductible business losses and expenses and much more, making S-Corporation Small Business Start-Up Kit a must for anyone seeking to reap the financial and organizational benefits of corporate law.
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How To Start And Run Your Own Corporation: S-Corporations For Small Business Owners
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All the information necessary to set up a small business S-corporation in any state.
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Assisted Me in Forming my S Corp!.......2005-10-30
I have been looking for a book that details step by step on forming an S Corp. It is light on the accounting end but otherwise I believe it is a good premier on the how to form an s corp. You will still want or need to consult other professionals and also the state and federal guidelines but it is a good read and reference!
Good.......2004-06-08
Good souce for someone who is looking for starting a S-Corporation. However, this book will not provide any information if the corporation desires to have business other then your home state. Also, the CD that contains the forms are not named accuratly. Ther are numbered instead of having the form names. Some of the forms in the CD are missing. However, if someone is planning to open a business, this book will give to a vital information.
Small Business Start-Up Kit S-Corporations.......2000-05-28
An excellent reference for anyone considering starting a business as an S-Corporation. This book contained all the necessary incorporation forms, as well as checklists that helped you complete the process. I found especially valuable the marketing plan worksheet, which helped determine whether the business idea was viable. The only downside of the manual was the sparse information given on state by state corporation laws. For instance, it would have been helpful to have the Internet addresses for each state's corporation department. The state that I reside in had state specific forms on it's Web page which could be downloaded for no fee.
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Everything necessary to set up a new S-corporation is included in this valuable business guide. Clear instructions, business plans, marketing worksheets, financial planning tools, accounting information, federal tax forms, payroll guidelines, and all necessary legal forms are included. This updated 3rd edition now also includes state-specific incorporation forms. The forms are supplied in both PDF and text formats on the enclosed CD, which also includes Adobe Acrobat Readerr software for easy form completion.
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Tourism Market Trends 2003 World: Overview & Tourism Topics
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Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border, 1863
Wiley Britton
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In 1863 the news of Northern victories at Gettysburg and Vicksbury made the outcome of the Civil War clear to young Wiley Britton, who was fighting for the Union with the Sixth Kansas Cavalry. But there was still hell to pay before anyone could go home. Nowhere else was the war so brutal as on the borders of Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, and the Indian territory, where bushwhackers and guerrilas dogged the heels of men going into battle. Always just ahead was the artillery fire of the Confederates.
Trying to do his job and stay alive, private Britton wrote about engagements at Pea Ridge, Prairie Grove, Cane Hill, and elsewhere. Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border, supplies a personal dimension unavailable to later historians, describing at firsthand the look of the countryside, the plight of its citizens, and, most poignantly, the faces and voices of comrades marching into history.
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A window into the past-.......2000-04-05
Wiley Britton's memoirs offer the reader an interesting glimpse into the life of a union solider during the Civil War. Unlike the bulk of written material about the war, this centers on the lesser known western operations along the borders of Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas.
What makes Britton's book most entertaining and informative is that he wrote about life as it happened. While his book was edited and published after the war, it is based on daily diaries he kept. As an enlisted solider, Britton's memoirs let the reader experience what the average soldier did on a day by day basis. His observations about people, life, and the events and circumstances around him will leave you feeling you know him, and his progressive thoughts for his day leave you feeling he is your contemporary. In fact, at times you may not believe these words were written over one hundred years ago- you will be startled to realize that while time separates you, the basic thoughts and motivations of people haven't really changed all that much over the centuries. We all still want the same things from life and we still wonder about the same questions.
Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border is a good read, and highly recommended for those interested in the lesser known campaigns of the war.
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Macmillan Profiles: Kings and Queens (MacMillan Profiles)
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When Congress passed the 1996 Telecommunications Act, legislators anticipated that the reduced regulatory barriers would lead to increased competition among U.S. telecommunications providers, and, in turn, the new competition would drive innovation and reap economic benefits for both American consumers and telecommunications providers. But the legislation had a markedly different impact. While many of the more aggressive providers enjoyed sharp short-term rises in stock market values, they soon faced sudden collapse, leaving consumers with little or no long-term benefit.
In Competition and Chaos, Robert W. Crandall analyzes the impact of the 1996 act on economic welfare in the United States. He also examines how the act and its antecedents have affected the major telecommunications providers, some of whom are now a threatened species, caught in a downward spiral of declining prices and substantial losses. In the wake of the 2001-02 telecom stock market collapse, the industry is preparing for an intense battle for market share among three sets of surviving carriers: the wireless companies, the local (largely Bell) telephone companies, and the major cable television operators. None is assured a clear path to dominance in the drive to attract customers to an expanding array of voice, data and audio services. Although the telecom stock market collapse is now history and the survivors are investing once again, Crandall concludes that regulators failed to adapt to the chaos to which they contributed until the courts forced them to do so.
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Not Telecom For Dummies, That's For Sure.......2006-09-21
While there can be little doubt the book
Competition and Chaos is a pro-telecom white paper, albeit an unusually technical one, it makes a worthy case for telecom deregulation in general by pointing out the flaws in our current approach. My only problems with the book are a discussion of wireline shrinkage that seems incomplete, and the author's problematic critique of net neutrality.
In the interest of full disclosure, I admit to working for a telco, one named frequently in the book. So at least to some degree I should be considered a friendly reviewer, in that I agree with his thesis and hope the regulatory environment can sort itself out sometime before I retire. On the other hand, I'm not in a position to reap a huge windfall if such a change were to come to pass, which is another way of saying I'm firmly (or not) embedded in the bowels of lower management. One might say I want to develop a stronger argument, which I believe is necessary to the eventual success of telecom reform.
The prospective reader should be reminded that the book is a economic analysis of recent political policy, written by an economist, so it has a good measure of economic jargon (such as price elasticity) and some telecom jargon (such as UNE-P). Some of the jargon is explained, others not so much. Having read a few white papers in the past few years, it was refreshing to see one with actual equations instead of opinion polls. And of course, it has a plethora of citations, as would be expected of a scholar. I had fun researching the meaning of the Herfindahl-Hirschman index of concentration - rather like hunting for Easter eggs.
Now on to the areas suitable for improvement.
One analysis that could have stood an opinion poll or two is the author's treatment of the overall decline in wireline voice where the author guesses the reason is because of broadband and/or wireless cannibalization (the term is appropriate, if a bit loose, for wireless as most of them are affiliated with the telcos). That is probably true, but why? Though the book is an economic treatment, not a marketing study, economics is the study of incentives, and the motives behind the migration may be less obvious than the author believes.
But my quibble with information gaps in the wireline voice problem doesn't compare with the issues I have with the author's treatment of network ownership / network neutrality. His strident property-rights argument and curious analogy to automobiles are far from convincing; on the contrary, they may provide net neutrality partisans with more mojo in their quest to raise the specter of evil telcos murdering the "free" Internet such as many have accused Microsoft of doing to the PC. I refer the reader to the last paragraph on p. 125, which reads in part, "[Nondiscriminatory access] would prevent network operators from developing their own content and denying access to competitive applications and content [emphasis added]." So in effect, the author argues for the transformation of netops from utilities to broadcasters.
Rhetorical question -- can anyone tell me why the Internet became so popular? Was it so the cheapskates of the world could save money on stamps? Was it so people unlucky enough to live in sexually inhibited areas could have access to porn? Maybe. But a broader way of describing the motivator is the word choice, i.e. less at the mercy of broadcasters' needs. And an Internet where only netop-developed or approved content can roam will be a world of fewer, not more, choices.
What's funny is that I support property rights, and furthermore, I've yet to hear of any plans to replace eBay with "BellBay". But one cannot help but suspect the worst, especially in light of recent revelations by some telcos to "reclaim" the DSL Universal Service Fee, which are supposed to be regulatory "pass-throughs".
I find more troublesome the author's car analogy in the same paragraph. It reads, "In an earlier era, this would have been similar to requiring Henry Ford, who had more than 60 percent of the U.S. automobile market in the early 1920s, from changing the design of his Ford platforms to adopt new technologies and deny his competitors the ability to install their components on his cars..."
While it is easy to imagine the phone network -- or any network -- as a platform, a more accurate analogy would have been to say, "If Ford owned 60 percent of the road miles, `road neutrality' legislation would have required him to allow non-Ford automobiles to drive on his roads, without either an intentional performance or financial penalty." The problem with such an analogy is obvious - it would not have merely undermined the network ownership argument, but obliterated it completely.
What is certain that if a person generally supportive of telecom reform and of modest skill in rhetoric can spot weaknesses such as described, no doubt the conspiracy theorists and populists can as well.
Going back to the utility-broadcaster comparison for a moment, in the final chapter, the author argues a case for vertical integration as a means to ensure the financial returns sufficient to justify new investment. Merely pushing more bits faster will no longer appease the financial markets. But one must wonder, how much content a local TV station, a major network, or a cable company develops in-house? Most content is developed by production companies and sold to the highest bidder. And while the "free" Internet has allowed a lot of content to blossom without additional benefit to the netops, it has also seen a lot more failures that haven't cost the netops a penny -- other than maybe uncollected service charges. Content development is at least as risky as network development, especially, as the author claims, if providers have limited market power; how many new TV shows last beyond the first season or two?
The author has presented a sober study of the trends developing in telecom since the passage of Telecom '96. His thesis that political meddling in the telecom marketplace has done more harm than good I find laudable, and most of the chapters present conclusions which are at least plausible. His training as an economist, and the worldview inherent in such training, lends weight to his analysis but limits the scope of discussion and therefore its' usefulness to the ongoing political debate. After all, if macroeconomics were everything, would we have a minimum wage? Finally, his argument for network ownership and supporting analogy could use refinement. He may have another crack at it if Congress passes COPE '06 or some variant thereof.
I wish I'd written this.......2005-08-02
This book on U.S. telecommunications policy over the last ten years is a jewel of clarity. It cuts through the endless debates and draws sharp, clear, and actionable conclusions. Unfortunately, because telecommunications policy is pretty abstruse stuff, not many readers will be all that interested, or stick with the book. For those that do, they will be well rewarded. One word of warning: Robert Crandall does a lot of consulting for the RBOCs, and as a result he is occasionally biased. But over all he manages to put his biases aside, and produce a fair assessment.
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Matching folio to her latest including: Honey ? Butterfly ? The Roof ? Breakdown ??Close My Eyes ? The Beautiful Ones ? and more.
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All 14 songs from Mariah's 2005 R and B release that won Grammys for Best R and B Album, Female R and B Vocal Performance, and R and B Song of the Year for "We Belong Together." Includes: Fly like a Bird - It's like That - Joy Ride - Mine Again - Say Somethin' - Shake It Off - Stay the Night - We Belong Together - Your Girl - and more.
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17 certified hits including: Always Be My Baby Dreamlover Emotions Fantasy Hero Honey I Don't Wanna Cry I Still Believe I'll Be There Love Takes Time My All One Sweet Day Someday Sweetheart Vision of Love When You Believe Whenever You Call.
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#1's is hott.......2003-09-02
#1's is the best book i own! all mc fans go buy it!
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Mariah Carey (Galaxy of Superstars)
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The best.......2000-07-22
One of the best Mariah Books I've read. This has lots of Info for mariah fans!
Mariah.......2000-07-20
She is so great.So is this this book."Very Informational". There were facts in this book That I just found Out . So for all the MC webmasters you should buy it because it's great . That's all I can say!
Greeat.......2000-07-20
This book is Great. It has lots of Information about mariah. SO BUY IT. Thats why I give it 5 stars. It has tons of facts about Mariah Carey. There were thins I just found out about just reading this book. It's not like other books that say things you know It has differnt things about her.So go ahead get.I recomend it.
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Mariah Carey (Blue Banner Biographies)
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Matching folio, including: Always Be My Baby * Daydream Interlude * Fantasy * One Sweet Day * Underneath the Stars * When I Saw You * and more. Includes color photos.
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The Best Singer.............1999-05-21
Mariah is the best singer from our generation. She is the greatest diva!!! She reaches the highest notes, and is always perfectly in tone!!! She always manages to show her best in all her CDs. This CD is the best!!! I love the song " Always Be My Baby". Is very romantic , and in my case...very true. If you have not bought this great CD, buy it as soon as possible. You wont regret it!!!
Mariah Carey's Daydream Soars.......1998-03-18
This spectacular album, Daydream, belongs to the best selling pop diva of the 90's: Mariah Carey. Fantasy and One Sweet Day hit #1 the first week out, which clearly states that these are great songs. Forever is another excellent song, where the songstress produces a strong, radiant vocal preformance. Her beautiful looks and enchanting voice complement her song - writing skills. I would strongly reccomend this masterpiece to anyone looking for a great album.
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Matching folio the hit album featuring 10 songs, including the singles: Hero * Dreamlover * All I've Ever Wanted * and more. All I've Ever Wanted Anytime You Need A Friend Dreamlover Hero I'll Never Forget You I've Been Thinking About You Just To Hold You Once Again Music Box Now That I Know Without You
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Amazing!.......2000-07-25
Music Box is one of the best CD's and with this book you can lean the music. You should really get this if you are intrested in music.
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Matching folio to Mariah Carey's blockbuster debut album, featuring full-color photos and 11 songs, including: Vision of Love * I Don't Wanna Cry * Someday * Love Takes Time * and more.
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THIS IS MARIAH'S BEST BOOK OF SHEET MUSIC I HAVE THEM ALL.......1999-05-30
IT CONTAINS THE MORE PICTURES THAN ANY OF MY OTHER MARIAH BOOKS. IT CONTAINS LYRIC IN TWO FROMATS SHEET AND REGULAR IT IS THE ONLY BOOK IN IS CLASS THAT DOES THIS. OF COURSE IT GIVES YOU THE LYRICS YOU CAN'T FIND IN THOSE CD BOOKLETS LIKE THE LYRICS TO THE RAP MARIAH DOES ON "PRISONER" ALL OF THE PICTURES ARE IN COLOR EXCEPT FOR ONE THAT WAS PHOTOGRAPHED IN BLACK AND WHITE. I HAVE ALL OF MARIAH'S BOOKS, AND SOME BY OTHER ARTIST AND I CAN HAPPILY SAY THIS BOOK IS A MUST FOR ANY TRUE MARIAH CAREY FAN OR MUSIC LOVER AND IS THE MOST QULATIY BOOK ON SHEET MUSIC THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN.
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Mariah Carey - Emotions
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The follow-up to her smash hit debut album, featuring 10 new songs. Includes the hit singles: Emotions * Can't Let Go * Make It Happen * and more. Also features full-color photos!
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This is great.......2000-07-25
If you want the music for the album get it.
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16 songs, including: All I've Ever Wanted Always Be My Baby Can't Let Go Emotions Fantasy Hero I Don't Wanna Cry I'll Be There Make It Happen One Sweet Day Someday Underneath the Stars Vision of Love more. All I've Ever Wanted Always Be My Baby Can't Let Go Daydream Interlude Dreamlover Emotions Fantasy Hero Honey I Don't Wanna Cry I'll Be There Make It Happen One Sweet Day Someday Underneath The Stars Vision Of Love
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As a boy, Stephen J. Dubner's hero was Franco Harris, the famed and mysterious running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers. When Dubner's father died, he became obsessed -- he dreamed of his hero every night; he signed his school papers “Franco Dubner.” Though they never met, it was Franco Harris who shepherded Dubner through a fatherless boyhood.
Twenty years later, Dubner, an accomplished writer, sees Harris on a magazine cover. His long-dormant obsession comes roaring back. He journeys to Pittsburgh, certain that Harris will embrace him. And he is...well, wrong.
Told with the grit of a journalist and the grace of a memoirist, Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper is a breathtaking, heartbreaking, and often humorous story of astonishing developments. It is also a sparkling meditation on the nature of hero worship -- which, like religion and love, tells us as much about ourselves as about the object of our desire.
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Odd, but Enjoyable.......2007-10-16
I was a little predisposed to enjoying this book for a number of reasons, and I think I should describe them before getting too much into the review.
I am nearly the same age as the author, lost my Dad in 1974 and am a lifelong Steelers fan, who grew up well outside Pittsburgh, but followed the team religiously. My Mother was a religious and caring woman, and we were raised in relative poverty. I idolized Jack Lambert (another Steeler) and my own Mother passed away around the same time in life as the authors. In short, the similarities between the author's life and mine are much the same, so that might be relevant in knowing my thoughts on this book.
"Confessions of a Hero Worshipper" takes the reader through the author's childhood and his early search for identity. It gives a vivid description of his Father's death and his attempt at identifying with the star running back of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Franco Harris. Dubner arranges to meet Harris and the book gives a narrative of his frustrations- sometimes comical- at understanding Franco, when in truth, the author was really searching himself. As the book develops, Dubner skillfully explores why people choose to worship heroes and what heroes are. He also discusses the religious aspects of hero worship and concludes that they are a necessity. In a surprise twist, Dubner finds heroic qualities in Mr. Harris' mother, whom he befriends late in the book. He finally breaks free of his need to see Harris as Superhuman after talking with him in a final interview in Mr. Harris' home and through the first years of Dubner's own son's life.
Although this book is (as a few other reviewers have pointed out) somewhat disjointed, the prose style is enjoyable and unpredictably funny. Frankly, I did not expect the book to provoke as much thought as it did about why people choose the heroes they do, or the larger meaning of building people into what we want them to be. With the disclaimer of what this book meant personally to me, I recommend it.
Not Just for Hero Worshippers.......2006-08-16
It's easy to get caught up in the little details of our lives, getting kids off to school, getting the car (or dog) fixed, paying the mortgage, raking the leaves, and doing the thousand other things that we do, so much that we forget or never get the big picture.
But it's impossible to get through even a chapter of Confessions of a Hero Worshipper, by Stephen J. Dubner, without stepping back taking a longer look at our own trajectories.
In fact, the book, which details a psychic journey of mythic proportions conducted by shuttle between New York and Pittsburgh, is nothing but a long look back at the childhood of the author, carefree until his father's unexpected death at 57 years of age. Dubner proceeded to do what any 10 year old kid would have done, set about to replace that figure, and he promptly selected a football player, Franco Harris of the Pittsburgh Steelers, who in very unlikely fashion proceeded to fill the gap in a profound way. For a time Dubner signed his school work, "Franco Dubner."
Dubner grew up, went off to college, got a job and pretty much forgot Franco, until a chance sighting of the former football star on a magazine cover ignited a fool's errand, for the author to actually meet his childhood hero and establish a connection.
In the process Dubner is forced to re-examine the loss of his father, look long and hard at how he filled that void and, more importantly, take stock of the remaining sense of loss and sorrow.
In reading the book, I found it impossible not to examine such holes in my past, as well.
I'm currently reading "Turbulent Souls," another book by Dubner, which details the strange spiritual and cultural journey taken by his parents, which led them from a life as Jews in New York City to life as committed Catholics on a farm in rural Upstate New York. That's where they all were when I came to know them during my year in Duanesburg as the 13 year shortstop of the local sandlot baseball team.
Poignant and pleasant.......2006-01-29
Dubner's book had a special meaning to me when I read it. I had just come back from a trip where I met a childhood idol of mine. While the meeting was great, somehow I came home feeling a bit of emptiness.
Dubner's tale eventually delves into this emptiness. First, he relates the story of his childhood fascination with Franco Harris, a great running back with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1970's. It is the tale of a typical boy's love of a sports hero. Then, Dubner goes through school and leaves most of this behind. Later, as an adult when he has the chance to meet Harris, the book really hits a high note.
Dubner explores his feelings and Franco's feelings as the two meet several times. In the end, it is nothing like he expected or wanted, yet in the end it is exactly that.
Anyone who ever called himself a fan of a celebrity should read Dubner's story.
Everybody Needs A Hero!.......2005-06-05
This book compares the Jewish view to that of Christians. With the Jewish ban on idolatry, there are no people -- only things and places in pictures. That's strange, as my photos are full of views, beautiful or unusual scenes and things of the past, but very few people. In the Bible, there are prophets in abundance, but in the New Testament, the pictures are most always a glorified Jesus and his apostles. A messiah is less a person than an idea, a hope, and the yearning for the world to have a happy ending.
Thomas Carlyle, a pious Scottish Presbyterian, who died in 1881, wrote that hero worship is a human condition that "cannot cease till man himself ceases." I've had many heroes in my time. One of them is listed below.
A hero is someone we admire for who he is, but not so much because he is someone special to us when we need someone to love, a person who can take the place of a busy family, someone you don't come home to and have to listen to their complaints. A hero is perfect, he's an image we conjure up in our minds as being the person we would like to be.
Lincoln was shot five days after Lee's surrender at Appomattox on Good Friday; Booth was a crazed hero-worshipper and had to die for his mistake. Each era in America has its hero. Charles Lindbergh in 1927 because he did what no one else had done. General MacArthur in WWII because of his determination and defiance to do what his heart dictated. A Civil War hero, Abner Doubleday, was dubbed "father of baseball" after his death.
We all know that politicians say one thing behind closed doors and another in public. Movie stars and pop singers were "images" created for a purpose, to give us an imaginary world to enter in the theaters. The superheroes of the comics were Jewish American creations.
All of this history to establish his hero-worship for a ball player because of his will to win, mainly the will to survive. His father had been a newspaperman. He became a writer, thus subconsciously was emulating his dead father who was the real hero in his mind. A Mother is a Mother is a Mother...how can she be a hero? This book is "especially for those who read about others to find the truth in themselves."
A GREAT read!.......2003-07-11
After reading Stephen Dubner's first book, Turbulent Souls, I couldn't wait to read his latest work. I thoroughly enjoyed Confessions of a Hero Worshiper. It is a poignant, beautifully-written story about Dubner, who as a ten-year-old boy, grasped on to his football hero to help him survive his loneliness and insecurity after his father died. Dubner's childhood hero was Franco Harris of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the "man of steel" becomes much more to the young, fatherless boy than anyone would ever imagine. In school Dubner even wrote his name as "Franco Dubner" on his papers. For the next 4 years, Dubner has the same dream every night of meeting Franco Harris, inviting him over to his house for dinner, and playing a game of football in the backyard with him afterwards. Every night in the dream, Franco breaks his ankle just as he's about to score a touchdown. He hands the ball to Dubner and tells him, "You gotta take it from here yourself, kid." The words end up being prophetic.
Fast forward about twenty-five years. Dubner is now a successful writer and former editor of the NY Times Magazine. When he spies a magazine cover sporting Franco Harris's picture, his long-buried feelings are rekindled. Dubner is overcome by a deep desire to meet his hero and let him know what an important part he played in Dubner's young life.
When Dubner finally gets to rubs elbows with Franco Harris, the time spent with him and his athlete buddies is both exhilerating and frustrating. What transpires between them over the next months enables Dubner to finally shed his childhood ghosts when he comes to an epiphany of sorts. The story is both a heartfelt and at times hilarious account of Dubner's trip back into his past as he comes to grips with the present and discovers the secret to his future.
The story is so engaging and well-written that I couldn't put it down...and me, a sports fan...NOT!
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