{"product_id":"9780472028634","title":"Living the Faith: A Life of Tom Monaghan","description":"Who is Tom Monaghan?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Is he the four-year-old kid whose father died on Christmas Eve and whose mother sent him to an orphanage and then a juvenile detention home?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Is he the entrepreneurial genius who built Domino's Pizza from a hole-in-the-wall pizzeria in Michigan into an American brand as world-conquering as Ford or Coke?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Is he the religious visionary who sold Domino's for $1 billion to create an orthodox Catholic university, law school, and special interest law firm with the goal of transforming America to reflect his conservative values?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e He's all that and more. With extensive interviews with friends and enemies plus unprecedented access to the man himself, but wholly without his authorization, \u003ci\u003eLiving the Faith\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates Tom Monaghan, the man and the myth.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLiving the Faith\u003c\/i\u003e is the much-needed, definitive biography of one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in the realms of American business and religion. Through eighteen hard-boiled chapters, journalist James Leonard follows Monaghan on his path from a heartbroken kid who climbed into his father's coffin to the business tycoon who purchased the world-champion Detroit Tigers and spent a fortune on his own air force, navy, and island to the religious visionary who founded a university to make saints and a public interest law firm to overturn evolution.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A sympathetic but critical perspective of the man and his works, this book is for believers, nonbelievers, and agnostics; for conservatives, liberals, and independents; for the rich, the poor, and the shrinking middle class. Mainly, however, this book is for those who want the facts about Tom Monaghan---and the truth about the effect religion had on one man and the effect that man had on the world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47119823012080,"sku":"9780472028634","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780472028634_p0.jpg?v=1763707532","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780472028634","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}