Doing Good: Inspirational Stories of Everyday Americans at Home and at Work [Paperback]

Timothy Harper (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2001

Doing Good: Inspirational Stories of Everday Americans at Home and at Work is a collection of profiles of people who have found ways to make a difference – serving their communities, helping friends and family, improving the quality of life and work for colleagues, doing what they can to make the world a better place. A few of them are famous or prominent, but most of them not known outside their own communities. The modern-day Helen Keller. The widowed great-grandmother who lives alone in the Rocky Mountains and passes along her outdoors skills to children. The college professor who spends his summers teaching poor Appalachian kids to use computers. Top business executives using their time, money and skills to make a difference. The Big City Forest man. The best pickup basketball player in America. The senior citizens who help other ‘silver surfers’ lean to use the Internet. The lady brewer. The man who invented e-mail. These stories and more provide lessons for us all in how to work, how to play and how to live our lives to the fullest.

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About the Author

Timothy Harper, based at www.timharper.com, is a journalist and author whose work appears in magazines and newspapers around the world. He is a contributing editor for Delta?s Sky magazine and a regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly and other magazines. Timothy?s nine previous books include License to Steal, Moscow Madness and The Good Beer Book. He contributes to a number of websites, teaches in the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and serves as a corporate writing coach and editorial consultant. Timothy and his wife, Nancy Bobrowitz, an executive with the Reuters news and information agency, live outside New York City with their children. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 180 pages
• Publisher: Asja Pr (February 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595137865
• ISBN-13: 978-0595137862
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,664,922 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ought to be required reading, March 12, 2001

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This review is from: Doing Good: Inspirational Stories of Everyday Americans at Home and at Work (Paperback)

I have been a fan of Tim Harper since I first read "Operation Santa Claus" in Delta's Sky magazine several years back. The media is obsessed with reporting what ails society, but that's really a selective viewpoint and being fed a daily diet of it is probably why so many folks are taking anti-depressants these days! Tim Harper, on the other hand, focuses on ordinary people who perform wonderful acts of kindness, and their kindness influences others to do good as well...as evidenced by the update to Operation Santa in which an Illinois business adopted a school. Harper is a natural storyteller who gets his point across without being schmaltzy. The folks featured here aren't Mother Teresa...more likely they're your neighbor. Or perhaps - after reading this book - even you. I think the world would be a different place if this book was required reading for every college's incoming freshman class.