One Life... and Then Some, Vol. II [Hardcover]

Rev.Dr.Gordon Graham (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2, 2005

Critics acclaim Vol. 1 'I grew up playing sandlot baseball with Gordon in Clinton (MA) North End. I learned then to expect the unexpected from Gordon. He struck out often, but he was also always capable of hitting the long ball. His memoirs tell of that fearlessness." Leo F. McNamara, Professor of English, Emeritus, University of Michigan; Lecturer in English and Irish Studies, Queens University, Belfast and Trinity, Dublin 'Graham got me all wrong in Volume 1 and I bet he'll tell more whoppers about me in Volume 2. My lawyers and I will have to buy the book to see. What a high school debate partner and college room-mate he turned out to be." Sydney H. Schanberg, 1976 Pulitzer Prize Winner for International Reporting, The New York Times, whose life experiences are portrayed in the award-winning film, 'The Killing Fields" 'Gordie did indeed catch me with my pants down in Volume 1. But he did at least give me credit for folding them up neatly to keep the crease." 'Zip," Graham's team-mate on the undefeated Clinton Massachusetts' Galloping Gaels football team of 1950

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About the Author

Volume 2 of Gordon Graham's memoirs picks up as he prepares to leave provincial mill-town Massachusetts to enter the cosmopolitan world of Harvard. In this volume of the 1950's, Gordon experiences political, sexual, and spiritual awakenings: he defends academic freedom at Harvard, journeys across America and Europe into cathedrals, auto assembly lines, migrant stoop-labor fields, vagrant jail cells, New Orleans and Neapolitan brothels, military counter-intelligence in Cold War Germany, civil rights initiatives, Congressional lobbying, Christian Ecumenical ventures, and finally to marriage and a wedding reception in the garden of Washington's British Embassy. All in the decade, 1951-60. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 340 pages
• Publisher: Xlibris Corporation (May 2, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1413486401
• ISBN-13: 978-1413486407
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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