{"product_id":"2940012982803","title":"As the Cannon Roar","description":"CIRCA 1820-1840 Seventeen year old Thaddeus Samuel Biggs has been blessed with a privileged life, and now he feels a sense of entitlement.  To call him spoiled is inadequate - the word weak and insufficient.  He has grown accustomed to two things - receiving anything his heart desires, and a father who cannot say no.  By comparison, with all nature of good things lavished upon him, he cannot relate to the poverty his father claims he, himself, was born into.  Tad finds it difficult that such an empty life, void of material possessions, is even possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe has  become self-indulgent and arrogant.  His father, Samuel, cannot control his son, and Tad has begun to think he is the equal of his parents.  Therefore, he will listen to neither.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToo late, Samuel Biggs realizes he has spoiled his son.  He understands the temper tantrums and rebelliousness are his doing, and his alone. His wife has warned her husband their son is becoming unmanageable and encourages him to be firm with their first born.  But Sam can not bear to see his son suffer from the lack of anything, and certainly not from the likes of the poverty into which he was born.  Try as he might, he does not have it in him to be harsh with the young man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarried at forty, Sam see the boy as an extension of himself, while his two daughters, whom he loves just as dearly, are carefully shepherded by their mother.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe time has arrived when Tad's ever-growing ego must be halted.  And no one is more prepared to do just that than the cagey old professor at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe new teacher must bend his charge into a new person.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn unexpected series of dramatic events rushes in upon Thaddeus - things over which he has no control.  His life catapults in a drastically different direction than what he thought his future would be.  He must learn to ask things of others, not to demand and expect.  A wide and diverse range of characters, each with baggage of their own, becomes more important to him than any material things he has ever possessed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd Tad no longer feels entitled.","brand":"Dwight V. Murray","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156816707824,"sku":"2940012982803","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012982803_p0.jpg?v=1763574778","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012982803","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}