{"product_id":"9781479707553","title":"SCHOOL DAYS: Coming of Age in the Mid-20th Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eInspirational and humorous autobiographical essays on coming of age in a small\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ewestern Pennsylvania river town during WW II, the Korean and Viet-Nam Wars.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYoung William fought World War II from a fox-hole that he and his childhood\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efriends dug and in which he was wounded. He believed that since he graduated\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efrom a smoky, mill-town high school, he might not easily get admitted to college,\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eso he applied to fourteen of them. After graduating from college with honors, he\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003edescribes getting a PhD, a less-than-heroic stint in the military and becoming a\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eprofessor and business consultant. A continuing theme is his relationship with “the\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003egirl of his dreams,” a beautiful redhead who he met at 14 and to whom he has been\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003emarried for more than a half century. He describes his older Brother, who fought in\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKorea and came home to live the life of a playboy until he met the love of his life,\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ehis nurturing Mother and a Father who set an example to which he still aspires. The\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ereader will learn about things as diverse as the Whiskey rebellion, teenage behavior\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ebefore the sexualization of culture, a useful decision paradigm created on Omaha\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeach and how to impress a girl by tasting her hair. The book ends with musings on\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ehow two very different people can come together and create a happy and enduring\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003emarriage. Anyone interested in what life and relationships were like in the middle of\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethe 20th Century, when three wars consumed the daily attention of the nation, will\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efind this book to be interesting, thought-provoking and entertaining.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47168886112496,"sku":"9781479707553","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781479707553_p0.jpg?v=1763617293","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781479707553","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}