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Two Bills from Boston: Making the American Dream Come True [Paperback]

Bill Bright (Author)
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November 2000
Two Bills from Boston takes you from the Great Depression to the realization of the great American Dream.

Two young men, both named Bill, decided to live the American Dream. They had been born into the Great Depression and had just graduated from high school.

What were the chances that they might succeed? The two Bills made a pact: they would form a team and work together.

After working at shipbuilding jobs that paid for night classes at engineering school, they were advanced to jobs in San Francisco, and later to department heads in Portland.

Bill Bright went on to victory in his career, founding Western Power Products, a small enterprise that grew into a multimillion-dollar electrical utility equipment corporation.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 225 pages
  • Publisher: Bookpartners (November 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1581510497
  • ISBN-13: 978-1581510492
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,579,342 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Two Bills from Boston, March 26, 2000
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Here is a true story dressed in determination and teeming with perseverance. It is also a story about partnership. Bill Wild and Bill Bright (the last names alone portray a spirit that symbolizes their experiences) agreed as teenagers to team up toward capturing an American dream. Inspired -- perhaps driven -- by the advice from another Bill (Uncle Bill, who lived in New Jersey -- hence the title is not "Three Bills from Boston"), who suggested "let it be known that you want to succeed . . . and keep at it," these two young men, from the East Coast to the West Coast, through a Depression, a war, and the aftermath, converted their commitment to a common goal (to be electrical engineers) into a realization of their mutual dream: to add to the world something a little better than the world already had. This is a story about luck, skill, hard work, ingenuity, opportunity, the value of a good education, and, ultimately, success. The story of Bill Wild and Bill Bright (a story told by Bill Bright) chronicles not a rags to riches nor a claim to fame; it chronicles hard-won and very satisfying success.
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