{"product_id":"9781936488452","title":"Dear Father, Dear Son: Two Lives... Eight Hours","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Stunning ... a wonderful read ... a page-turner ... a handbook for life.\" Those words of advance praise from another celebrated author scarcely convey just how powerfully mesmerizing is the latest book by New York Times best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host Larry Elder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDear Father, Dear Son\u003c\/b\u003e is a personal memoir of Elder's troubled — one might even say tortured — relationship with his father, and the astonishing outcome that develops when Elder, at long last, confronts him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSays Elder: \"A man's relationship with his father — every boy, every man lucky enough to have a father in his life has to figure that out. My own father? I thought I knew him — even though he seldom talked about himself. And what I knew I hated — really, really hated. Cold, ill-tempered, thin-skinned, my father always seemed on the brink of erupting. Scared to death of him, I kept telling myself to find the courage to 'stand up to him.' When I was fifteen, I did.\" After that, said Elder, \"We did not speak to each other for ten years.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"And then we did — for eight hours.\" The result can't be described. It has to be experienced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs reflected in the book's subtitle — \"Two Lives ... Eight Hours\" — one extraordinary, all- day conversation between Elder and his long- estranged father utterly transformed their relationship. It is no exaggeration to say the book will likewise transform readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndeed, calling it \"stunning,\" Burt Boyar, co-author of the bestselling autobiography on Sammy Davis, Jr., says of \u003cb\u003eDear Father, Dear Son\u003c\/b\u003e: \"Above all it is a wonderful read. I am tempted to call it a page-turner but in my case I hated to turn every page because that meant I was getting closer to the end and I did not want it to end. ... The book is filled with emotion. It is, of course, a handbook for life. I guess it is that above all things. Any kid who reads it and follows the advice of how to live his life just has to come out well.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDear Father, Dear Son\u003c\/b\u003e is the story of one man discovering a son he never really knew. And of the son finding a man, a friend, a father who had really been there all along.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WND Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063591190768,"sku":"9781936488452","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781936488452_p0.jpg?v=1763658976","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781936488452","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}