On Admiration Heroes Heroines Role Models and Mentors First Edition by W D Wetherell ISBN 161608071X 9781616080716
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ISBN 10: 161608071X
ISBN 13: 9781616080716
Author: W. D. Wetherell
In a refreshing departure from today’s celebrity worship cultivated by reality television, tabloid photos, and celebrity twittering, award-winning novelist W. D. Wetherell’s On Admiration celebrates the heroes and heroines who have peopled his life from his earliest years.
Writers, singers, presidents, athletes, cartoonists, artists, activists, and many more are examined here—from Henry David Thoreau to Willa Cather to Albert Camus to Dwight D. Eisenhower to Winston Churchill to Beverly Sills—in this humorous, insightful memoir that speaks powerfully about the state of fame, celebrity culture, and honest admiration.
Wetherell skillfully reminds us of the magic and mystery that comes with slow discovery—of that first awareness of those figures who awoke something within us, that inspired us as children, teenagers, and adults—forever altering the landscape of ourselves. From visiting Herman Melville’s study where Melville wrote Moby Dick to being a Rangers fan living in NYC—Wetherell examines the meaning of the American cultural landscape—and its remnants—in a candid and personal memoir like no other before him. With this lively and exacting series of pop culture essays, Wetherell joins the ranks of David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Chuck Klosterman.
Table of contents:
(1) Pure Admiration
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dave Garroway
Mary Martin
Jim Thorpe
(2) We Are Who We Admire
Mickey Mantle
Davy Crockett
Sir Edmund Hillary
T. H. White
(3) Lost in Admiration
Walt Kelly
Jean Shepherd
Patrick McGoohan
Benedict Arnold
(4) Lives of the Saints
Henry David Thoreau
Pete Seeger
Rosa Parks
(5) The Golden Age of Admiration
Pierre Bezukhov
Arthur Fiedler
Robert Frost
(6) Admiration
Bertrand Russell
Wayne Morse
Bernie Geoffrion
Willa Cather
(7) Total Admiration
Fredric March
Joseph Conrad
Tom Paxton
Henry Beston
(8) Man at Her Best
Beverly Sills
Maria Chekhova
Winslow Homer
Jussi Bjorling
(9) Still Admirable After All These Years
Herman Melville
Parker Pillsbury
Albert Camus
Stan Rogers
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