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On Admiration: Heroes, Heroines, Role Models, and Mentors
W.D. Wetherell
#UD6912
Paperback, 187 pages; 2010
$7.48
In this unconventional memoir, author W. D. Wetherell pays eloquent tribute to the role models who have most influenced him in his life: people who, as he puts it "entertained me, inspired me, educated me, consoled me--men and women who had enlarged my appreciation of beauty, sharpened my courage, made me feel honored to be their fellow human, served as my role models and mentors." From his blind love of Eisenhower as a six-year-old to his later-in-life discovery of opera singer Jussi Björling, Wetherell profiles more than forty authors, artists, actors, musicians, athletes, and politicians--both well known and obscure--via short, stirring essays about each person's character and achievements, and what he or she taught the author about himself and the world. A sort of personal cultural history of the past sixty years, On Admiration is a thought-provoking and uplifting treatise on the value of admiring and emulating worthy people.
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