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Book

American story : a lifetime search for ordinary people doing extraordinary things

Call Number

  • 973 D7252 (OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : Viking, 2013.

Physical Description

xvi, 237 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

For more than four decades, Bob Dotson has been travelling all over the United States searching for those who have made a difference. With American Story, he shares their stories along with inspiration that can help anyone reach their goals.

Contents

  • Out beyond the limits of settled lives
  • See what we all see, but think what no one else has thought
  • Fanfare for the common good
  • Thinking more of others than they do themselves
  • Stories hiding in history's shadow
  • What if?
  • America works best with a level playing field
  • They never let a handicap handicap them
  • Where a game is still a game and not a bottom line
  • Homesick for places we've never been
  • Fame is a vapor
  • Playing a bad hand well over and over again.

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