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Dear Father, Dear Son: Two Lives... Eight Hours
Dear Father Dear Son Two Lives Eight Hours Author:Larry Elder A man's relationship with his father -- every boy, every man lucky enough to have a father in his life has to figure that out. — My own father? — I thought I knew him -- even though he seldom talked about himself. And what I knew I hated -- really, really hated. Cold, ill-tempered, thin-skinned, my father always seemed on the brink of erupting. Sc... more »ared to death of him, I kept telling myself to find the courage to "stand up to him." When I was fifteen, I did. We did not speak to each other for ten years.
And then we did -- for eight hours.
Dear Father, Dear Son takes a journey of American history through the eyes of a father -- from his dirt-poor Jim Crow Southern childhood, to the segregated Marine Corp. of World War II, to a janitor turned California businessman. Hard memories.
One man discovered a son he never really knew. And the son found a man, a friend, a father who had really been there all along.« less