{"product_id":"9781543685190","title":"Hitler Saved My Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eWarning: This book makes jokes about the Third Reich, the Reign of Terror, World War I, cancer, Millard Fillmore, and Chernobyl. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdvertising legend Jim Riswold is a big f---ing deal. Ask him, he'll tell you. But when Riswold is stricken with leukemia and prostate cancer (a two-fer!), the freewheeling adman quits making commercials and starts making art. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut not just any art - Hitler art. Mussolini art. Stalin-in-a-bathtub art. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a sad cancer story. This is a molotov cocktail of raunch and heart and 18-gauge biopsy guns. This is a taboo-busting laugh riot, a raspberry blown straight at dying-guy preciousness and monsters of all kinds - cancer and world-historical bad guys included. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBe warned - contents of this book include: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne profanity-spiked TEDx talk \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo adorable children \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSomething called \"Interferon Family Fun Night\" \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJim Riswold leading a crowd of people in a rousing rendition of \"Happy Birthday\" to his oncologist \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eRelentlessly funny and scorchingly subversive, this is a bruised and bruising memoir - it is also tubed, scarred, stapled, and irradiated. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut here's the secret: Jim Riswold, enfant terrible, the man Charles Barkley once called \"a role model for morons\", is kind of a sweetheart. The wise-guy posturing is just a cover for his pulpy heart. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnother secret: This book isn't about Hitler. It's about the beautiful, stupid, gross, foolish, and fantastic things we're willing to do for love and family and not-dying. It's about a guy who, with due respect to Lou Gehrig, considers himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReally, Jim Riswold owes cancer a thank you. Thanks to cancer, his tombstone will no longer read: Here Lies That Guy Who Did That \"Bo Knows\" Commercial. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, it will say Here Lies the Guy Who Put Cancer in Its Place - and Mussolini on a Tricycle. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055770026224,"sku":"9781543685190","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781543685190_p0.jpg?v=1763750471","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781543685190","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}