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Young tim russ12/19/2023 ![]() All his belongings in a shopping cart, Gardner sometimes slept with his young son at the office (apparently undiscovered by the night cleaning crew). ![]() ![]() ![]() He was recruited as a trainee at Dean Witter just around the time he became a homeless single father. Moving up in San Francisco, married and then divorced, he sold medical supplies. He joined the Navy and became a medic (preparing badass Marines for proctology), and a proficient lab technician. Meanwhile, at the behest of Moms, he developed a fondness for reading. His heroes were Miles Davis, James Brown and Muhammad Ali. Chris did “the dozens” with the homies, boosted a bit and in the course of youthful adventure was raped. When beautiful, evanescent Moms was there, Chris also had to deal with Freddie “I ain’t your goddamn daddy!” Triplett, one of the meanest stepfathers in recent literature. He was fatherless, and his adored mother wasn’t always around once, as a child, he spied her at a family funeral accompanied by a prison guard. Young-rags-to-mature-riches memoir by broker and motivational speaker Gardner.īorn and raised in the Milwaukee ghetto, the author pulled himself up from considerable disadvantage. The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the sphere of suffering shared, and in this case extended to the death march itself, there is no spiritual or emotional legacy here to offset any reader reluctance. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions. He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. photos, not seen)Įlie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children. And Little Russ seems to be a pretty nice Dad himself.Ī largely self-effacing souvenir and a fulsome, sincere Father’s Day greeting. As portrayed by his son, he’s the best national Pop since Robert Young in Father Knows Best. (Check out the chapter titles: “Respect,” “Work,” “Faith,” “Baseball,” and “Cars,” etc.) This memory piece is primarily a devoted tribute to Dad, and if Big Russ doesn’t seem much different than anyone else’s father, that’s fine. Russert offers little about the news business or his work on Meet the Press, eschewing the talking-head mode to speak from the heart in a particularly American way. At NBC, he booked the Pope, no less, for Today before moving up to oversee the Washington news bureau and the Sunday morning talk shows. and Robert Kennedy, he went to law school, then worked for Pat Moynihan, his intellectual father, and for Mario Cuomo. In college, Tim booked speakers and entertainers for the University Club. The author fondly recalls hours with Dad at the Legion Hall, the nuns in grammar school, and his Jesuit teachers at Canisius High. Little Russ served as an altar boy, tended his paper route, and took a summer job on a garbage truck-he still seems to recognize garbage when he smells it, even if it’s wrapped in the finest political fustian. ![]() Big Russ, Tim’s father, supported his family by driving a newspaper truck and collecting garbage he instructed young Tim (Little Russ) in decent behavior and how to wrap trash considerately. Uncle Fran was a police detective and a great ballplayer. Russert, the kid from blue-collar South Buffalo who now grills the prominent and powerful, writes in a style as unadorned as the snow in the land of the Bills. The gimlet-eyed interlocutor of Meet the Press is a pussycat when it comes to matters of family and faith. ![]()
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