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How I met Father Joe. I was fourteen and having an affair with a married woman. These are the opening lines to the first chapter of this outstanding memoir by former National Lampoon Editor Tony Hendra. How could we resist diving into this deliciously satisfying story about a lifelong mentorship with Dom Joseph Warrilow, a.k.a. Father Joe? After the devout Catholic husband catches the illicit couple in the kitchen, the husband does not attack Hendra. Instead he decides the young boy needs salvation. Amazingly, the husband leads Hendra to the one man who could save his soul: Father Joe. This is a tribute to a spiritual mentor, written in an easygoing, guy-talk style. It is no small feat to be brilliantly funny, ruthlessly honest, and spiritually profound at the same time, but Hendra has the winning combo. For more than 40 years Hendra would return to this mesmerizing old soul to tell him everything---from the details of his first sexual encounter, through questioning the social value of satire, to his crisis in faith after losing two children through miscarriages. But it's not just the North Star wisdom of Father Joe that captivates readers; it is the chance to follow Hendra as he gradually matures into a humble and spiritually solid man who can still crack a wicked good joke. Such a gift. Thank you, Tony Hendra. --Gail Hudson
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A key comic writer of the past three decades has created his most heartfelt and hard-hitting book.
Father Joe is Tony Hendra’s inspiring true story of finding faith, friendship, and family through the decades-long influence of a surpassingly wise Benedictine monk named Father Joseph Warrillow.
Like everything human, it started with sex. In 1955, fourteen-year-old Tony found himself entangled with a married Catholic woman. In Cold War England, where Catholicism was the subject of news stories and Graham Greene bestsellers, Tony was whisked off by the woman’s husband to see a priest and be saved.
Yet what he found was a far cry from the priests he’d known at Catholic school, where boys were beaten with belts or set upon by dogs. Instead, he met Father Joe, a gentle, stammering, ungainly Benedictine who never used the words “wrong” or “guilt,” who believed that God was in everyone and that “the only sin was selfishness.” During the next forty years, as his life and career drastically ebbed and flowed, Tony discovered that his visits to Father Joe remained the one constant in his life—the relationship that, in the most serious sense, saved it.
From the fifties and his adolescent desire to join an abbey himself; to the sixties, when attending Cambridge and seeing the satire of Beyond the Fringe convinced him to change the world with laughter, not prayer; to the seventies and successful stints as an original editor of National Lampoon and a writer of Lemmings, the off-Broadway smash that introduced John Belushi and Chevy Chase; to professional disaster after co-creating the legendary English series Spitting Image; from drinking to drugs, from a failed first marriage to a successful second and the miracle of parenthood—the years only deepened Tony’s need for the wisdom of his other and more real father, creating a bond that could not be broken, even by death.
A startling departure for this acclaimed satirist,
Father Joe is a sincere account of how Tony Hendra learned to love. It’s the story of a whole generation looking for a way back from mockery and irony, looking for its own Father Joe, and a testament to one of the most charismatic mentors in modern literature.
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I think Father Joe Saved my soul too!.......2007-09-01
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I think Father Joe Saved my soul too!
This audio book is a great listen.The difference between other books about religion is it is not about religion.Tony like many people growing up was searching for the meaning of life.The seven deadly sins effected Tony,lust being his first attack on his mortal soul,led him to confession to Father Joe.This first confession led Tony to
have a lifelong confessor in Father Joe.Tony believed as a boy that he was going to join the Benedictine Monstery.
St.Benedict was the Founder of Western Monasticism,he
founded a collection of rules in which became known as the Benedictine Rule.These rules are used to guide the monks who follow St.Benedict.The rules are loosely based on the old saying "a person not busy is the devils workshop".
Father Joe did not think Tony should be a monk, and guided him to be in the Arts.Tony went on to write theatrical stories in hopes to make people laugh.Tony was told at the end of Father Joe's life,by father joe why he sent him to school an guided him thw way he did.
The biggest thing a person can get out of this story is everyone serves God in his
or her way.A priest serves God, no less then a dad or a mom and or visa versa.We are all in vocation that serves the creator, the way the creator created us to be.This is a very good book,read, Father Joe: the Man Who Saved My Soul, by Tony Hendra...
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A Great Book: Beyond Judgment and Revisionism .......2007-04-01
I came to Father Joe recently as an innocent, and I loved it. It's the true story of an all-too-human soul and his rocky-road journey. I knew nothing of the later scandal and controversy involving his daughter's accusations of molestation--accusations that have clearly skewed the more recent reactions to this wonderful work. Not "perfect," but nonetheless wonderful. What I would ask the now-judgmental and harsh critics of this work is this: are you willing to allow that people who do "bad things" actually can change, which does not imply that they/we then become perfect? For the quibblers, the book is called Father Joe, though it's Hendra's memoir, precisely because the monk's profoundly simple, sublimely wise and supremely compassionate presence casts such a long shadow over the entire work--and Hendra's life. As a memoir, it is funny, poignant, moving, honest....and at times exasperating, as we read about Hendra's descent into narcissism and his ill-treatment of others. That he does not discuss his first marriage and the children thereof in great deal may well be due to a deep sense of shame and a desire to protect, not just his own back, but all of his family. Of course he is responsible for his actions. But given the drug-and-alcohol haze in which he spent many years, his recollection of events is no doubt impaired. Be that as it may, God bless him, and all of his children, particularly those from the neglected first marriage. And may the Father Joes and "everyday angels" of this world continue to bless all of us with forgiveness and acceptance despite our failings.
Father Joe--a disappointment.......2007-03-23
This book is more about Tony Hendra than Father Joe. The few times Father Joe appears in the book might be said to be "inspirational" in how he interprets or views certain situations. However Tony's "soul" is not "saved" until his middle age years--the time when many of us reflect on how we have progressed in life. A major disappointment...
The long-lasting relationship of a layman and his spiritual mentor.......2007-03-09
I absolutely adored the first part of Father Joe, centering on the likable narrator's childhood and the beginning of his religious awakening as a Catholic in England. The second part I despised. The 'saint-child' who so wanted to become a monk like his mentor Fr. Joe turned into an incredibly selfish and depressed person who even in his highest successes was nowhere near as interesting as the boy he once was. But for the second part of this work, It would likely have given this book the highest rating. I understand the purpose of the latter half was showing Tony's fall from faith into secularism and then an ultimate return, but I really had to push myself to finish the book. Still, worth reading even if the title character is far more intriguing than his sad, corrupted friend.
Disgusted with the lie........2007-01-15
I just finished reading this book this evening, and I loved it for the reasons mentioned by other people, but then I went online and found out about his daughter's accusations of sexual abuse. I read articles about that and became convinced of the veracity of the allegations. If this truth wasn't so heinous and immense it could be deflected as not being pertinent to a well-written book, but the reality gives the lie to the whole book, and completely ruins it. If Hendra still so callously lies about that, even to the point of slandering his daughter, no fabrication is beyond him.
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In a spectacular and mesmerizing narrative, Jamling Tenzing Norgay, the climbing leader for the IMAX film expedition on Mount Everest, details the ill-fated 1996 summer climbing season (made famous by Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air) and deftly weaves in the history, politics, triumphs, and tragedies of climbing the world's tallest mountain. Norgay knows Everest, and Touching My Father's Soul is a must-read for anyone contemplating a summit attempt, even if exclusively from the comfort of a favorite armchair.
Just because technological and meteorological advances have benefited later expeditions, newer isn't necessarily better; much wisdom can be gained from studying the mistakes and encounters of previous attempts. Anecdotes and gripping prose shine throughout, like this gem: "That night--and then the following night--we lay in our tents listening to the malevolent roar of wind high on the mountain. The train was still running, the 747 endlessly trying to take off." As a Sherpa and practicing Buddhist, Norgay flavors the book with his culture and its climbing rituals and carefully dissects the differences between the local, deep respect for their mountain--Chomolungma--and the nonnative brashness that has often led to disaster.
Norgay is intent on the accomplishments and experiences of his legendary father, Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa who first reached the summit with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953, and commendably shares his most private and human thoughts while retracing his father's greatest path. As Touching My Father's Soul acknowledges, however, no one conquers Everest. You sneak up on it, then get down as quick as you can. --Michael Ferch
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The Great Untold Story of Everest
Sherpas are part of our everyday parlance, yet we know so little of their world beyond their depiction as climbing wonders. In Touching My Father's Soul, Jamling Tenzing Norgay gives us an insider's view of the Sherpa world as he tells a story of Everest unlike any told before. His tale is one of profound adventure that entwines the lives of a family, a mountain, and a people.
As Climbing Leader of the famed 1996 Everest IMAX expedition led by David Breashears, Jamling Norgay was able to follow in the footsteps of his legendary mountaineer father, Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, who with Sir Edmund Hillary was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953. While Jamling's father was the pioneer and most famous climber in the family, a total of twelve relatives have successfully summitted the mountain the Sherpas call Chomolungma, for the goddess who lives on the summit. In the Sherpa tradition and in the Norgay family, climbing Everest and living in its shadow have a very different meaning than the "men conquering mountains" attitude that prevails in many Western accounts.
Jamling Norgay interweaves the story of his own ascent during the infamous 1996 Mount Everest disaster with little-known stories from his father's historic climb. While the world celebrated Tenzing Norgay for his achievement, his son was deeply under his spell and inexorably drawn to the mountain his father loved. The journeys of both Jamling and his father began with ominous signs, telling divinations, ritual offerings, and humble prayers. Along the way both father and son grappled with the same physical and personal challenges as they pressed on against extreme circumstances. Jamling carried with him the fundamental mountaineering lesson learned from his father: Everest "must be approached with respect and with love, the way a child climbs into the lap of its mother. Anyone who attacks the peak with aggression, as a soldier doing battle, will lose."
Touching My Father's Soul is the first modern account of the Everest experience from the unheard voice of its indigenous people, revealing a fascinating and profound world that few--even many who have made it to the top--have ever seen.
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Jamling Norgay succeeds.......2007-01-18
I have read many mountain climbing books and this is one of the best. It is such a refreshing perspective from the sherpa's eye view. A great read.
Some Climb.......2006-12-18
This book recounts the 1996 memoirs of Jamling Norga, son of Tenzing Norgay. In 1953, Tenzing Norgay was one member of the two-man team that first made it to the top of Mt. Everest. Jamling, who was born after Tenzing's historic climb, felt drawn to follow in his footsteps from the time he first understood his father's place in the world. In this book, he details the events leading to his own successful ascent up Mt. Everest. Along the way, he reflects on the lessons his father tried to teach him about ethics, culture, and life. Tenzing had once forbidden Jamling to climb the mountain, telling him that he climbed Everest so that Jamling wouldn't have to. But that's not how it works between sons and fathers--there are some lessons a son must learn solely through personal experience, and no amount of advice or urging will dissuade him from a path he is determined to take.
In this book, Jamling recounts how his family lamas prognosticated a very dangerous season on Mt. Everest. As it turned out, Jamling would lose many friends on the mountain that year, all strong, experienced climbers. Although he had not been a member of the fated climbing teams that were decimated during those fateful days in May, 1996, he retells the stories of their tragic deaths as he witnessed the events unfold from the intermediate camps high on the mountain. All of these stories he tells from his unique vantage point as a Sherpa, a Buddhist, born and raised in India, and educated in the West. Thus, this book is quite different from the average climbing adventure story. It is as much a cultural adventure, a search for identity, and a tale of religious awakening with the Everest climb providing the backdrop.
Three books in one.......2003-07-29
Excellent book! The way I view it, it's 3 books in 1: a book about Tenzing's climb and personal life told by his
son, a book about his son's 1996 climb and his life and thoughts, and a book on Sherpa's life and Buddhist
customs. I really enjoyed reading it. The photographs include some photos of Tenzing as well.
Touching My Father's Soul.......2003-05-01
Nor what I expected and rather a disappointment, this books seems to be a local writer and a son cashing in on the family name. There is little excitement or depth of character exhibited here and the work seems unlikely to be that of a man Himalayan born and bred. Who actually wrote these words ? Whose thoughts are they ? Not Sherpa thoughts I think.
Far better is another book I have just read - Tenzing and the Sherpas of Everest by Tenzing's grandson, Tashi - an uplifting and honourable book about the Sherpas. It is simple and seems to me to truly represent the Sherpa viewpoint. This guy seems to be a true climber and talks like one. A far better book than Jamling's.
A Sherpa Man Finds his Spiritual and Family Roots.......2002-10-01
This book was absorbing emotionally and stimulating intellectually. It is the only book about the 1996 Mount Everest disaster written by a Sherpa, the indigenous people who work as porters and guides for commercial expeditions. I have read about five of the books written after the disaster, and wondered about the Sherpa point of view as there was surprisingly little mention of them.
The other books only mentioned them in passing and in terms of what the Sherpas did for the expedition. Jamling Tenzig Norgay, the author, experiences this attitude. After the disaster, he and his team stay at Base Camp. He wrote, "The other Sherpas were hanging out in a depressed funk. Some of them hadn't gotten so much as a thank-you from the guided clients whom they assisted down the mountain, often after exceptional struggle. The clients simply disappeared, some without saying goodbye. We notice this kind of behavior."
Norgay was skeptical about Buddhism at the beginning of the climb- but gradually came to believe in it. He requests and receives divinations from llamas- and uses their information as part of his decision-making. The book provides fascinating beginner's information that is accessible to someone like me who is just learning about Buddhism. He describes spirituality in a practical matter.
For example, he says, "in the icefall, as in the mountains, we hope we have been imbued with enough tsin-lap to handle any situation. Tsin-lap is roughly translated as "blessing", but it really means the mental ability and strength to allow our minds to be changed in the direction of complete awareness. When we pray to the wisdom deities, to the Buddhas, we pray for tsin-lap." He talks about the fact that he and the other Sherpas who carry loads for the team hike over each trail numerous times. This improves their athletic ability and knowledge of the mountain.
Norgay, spent over a decade in the United States and was also deeply familiar the clients who were paying to climb the mountains who were mostly from industrialized countries. The author does not idealize the Sherpas. He describes the positive parts of their culture, but also tells the reader that the main reason they are on the mountain is as a profession. It is to earn money. He explains that many of the Sherpas risked their lives for their clients during the disaster. But some expected a large award to be posted on the radio. It is not clear whether they might have saved the lives of their guide had an award been offered. Wong Chu, the sirdar responsible for logistics, kept a stick in the kitchen and "would whack miscreant Sherpas on the butt when they acted up. `You came here to do work.' he would say loudly."
Norgay is the son of Tenzing Norgay Sherpa who accompanied Edmund Hillary on the first successful attempt of the summit of Mount Everest. His story is interwoven with his father's story. And by the end of the book, you can see that the son had climbed two mountains- a real one and the metaphorical on that each of us must climb to integrate our past with our present and future.
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The Flip Side of Soul: Letters to My Son
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Touching My Father's Soul
Jamling Tenzing Norgay , and
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Sensitive and Informative.......2006-03-31
I resonated to this book. Jamling Tenzing Norgay is a son of the famous Sherpa climber Tenzing Norgay, who together with Sir Edmund Hillary became, in 1953, the first men to reach the summit of Everest.
Some of you may have read Jon Krakauer's book "Into Thin Air", about the ill-fated Spring 1996 climbing season on Everest. Jamling follows in his father's footsteps and finds himself high on Everest that same Spring, as a key member of David Breashear's IMAX film team.
The book combines a most interesting and informative look inside the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism together with the local people's mythology of the spirits protecting the famous mountain. These are woven together with stories of the 1953 Everest climb, and the tragic Spring 1996 Everest climbing season. Jamling's journey is both an inner and outer one, and is presented to us with sensitivity and insight. I recommend it highly.
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Father Joe the Man Who Saved My Soul
Tony Hendra
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A key comic writer of the past three decades has created his most heartfelt and hard-hitting book. Father Joe is Tony Hendra's inspiring true story of finding faith, friendship, and family through the decades-long influence of a surpassingly wise Benedictine monk named Father Joseph Warrillow.
Like everything human, it started with sex. In 1955, fourteen-year-old Tony found himself entangled with a married Catholic woman. In Cold War England, where Catholicism was the subject of news stories and Graham Greene bestsellers, Tony was whisked off by the woman's husband to see a priest and be saved.
Yet what he found was a far cry from the priests he'd known at Catholic school, where boys were beaten with belts or set upon by dogs. Instead, he met Father Joe, a gentle, stammering, ungainly Benedictine who never used the words "wrong" or "guilt," who believed that God was in everyone and that "the only sin was selfishness." During the next forty years, as his life and career drastically ebbed and flowed, Tony discovered that his visits to Father Joe remained the one constant in his life—the relationship that, in the most serious sense, saved it.
From the fifties and his adolescent desire to join an abbey himself; to the sixties, when attending Cambridge and seeing the satire of Beyond the Fringe convinced him to change the world with laughter, not prayer; to the seventies and successful stints as an original editor of National Lampoon and a writer of Lemmings, the off-Broadway smash that introduced John Belushi and Chevy Chase; to professional disaster after co-creating the legendary English series Spitting Image; from drinking to drugs, from a failed first marriage to a successful second and the miracle of parenthood—the years only deepened Tony's need for the wisdom of his other and more real father, creating a bond that could not be broken, even by death.
A startling departure for this acclaimed satirist, Father Joe is a sincere account of how Tony Hendra learned to love. It's the story of a whole generation looking for a way back from mockery and irony, looking for its own Father Joe, and a testament to one of the most charismatic mentors in modern literature.
"Tony Hendra has accomplished one hell of a lot in his life, and doubtless has many achievements ahead of him, but this memoir of his spiritual journey, and the monk who guided it, will almost certainly be his masterpiece."
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
"I picked up Father Joe intending to read just a couple of pages before bed—and found that I couldn't put it down until I'd finished it. The nature of a wise man, and the true nature of what wisdom feels like in action, is beautifully captured in Tony Hendra's portrait of Father Joe, who is one of the few convincing saints in recent writing. The book's last episode, when Hendra brings his son to meet Father Joe, brought unexpected tears to my weary eyes."
ADAM GOPNIK
"Father Joe is a many-layered memoir of a god-driven Englishman, Tony Hendra. When I read passages to my wife and my voice began to give way she said, Keep going, keep going. I really didn't need much urging. I could easily have read the whole book in one sitting but it's too rich, too powerful, overwhelming. Even when he's describing his days of wine, roses and rock and roll Mr. Hendra gives himself no quarter. There are furious paragraphs where he echoes Hamlet's 'Why, what an ass am I.' But w
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Father of My Soul
Ira Cochin
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Father of My Soul brings to life the true story of the strong love of a father and son, but could they break the bonds that kept them apart? Nicholas Skeby, the father, earned a reputation as the kindest, most gentle, and loving person in creation. When he spoke, young ladies came over to hug and kiss him. People in all walks of life went out of their way to help him in any and every manner. Then why couldn't a man with such charm hold onto the woman he loved - - the mother of his only child? Nic Skeby vowed to remain unknown to his son, Ira Cochin, his only child. And he managed to remain hidden from his son for many years. He knew he couldn't break his vow. So, silently he hoped that somehow his son would hear his call and come to him. What were the chances that the son would hear the lone winds calling?
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Collection of some of the most beautiful, inspiring and insightful sayings from spiritual teachers of the Jewish Hasidic Movement of the 18th and 19th centuries. Translated from Hebrew, Pitgamay Hasidim, a best-seller in Israel for almost 20 years.
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- Finally, the true feelings of Black daughters revealed.
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My Soul To His Spirit: Soulful Expressions From Black Daughters To Their Fathers
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The Covenant with Black America
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Finally, a book that helps all women understand their relationships with men.
Every book purchased is autographed by the Editor.
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Finally, the true feelings of Black daughters revealed........2006-05-24
Much has been written about the relationships of mothers and daughters, but never have the depths of feelings within Black daughters been probed so magnificently. These essays take the reader into the deepest and most personal thoughts that daughters experience as they get to know their fathers ... from admiration, to fear, to painful awakenings, to deep love.
Powerful and moving, this book is a wonderful read, and an excellent gift to fathers who never knew what their daughters were thinking. All Black fathers will find their daughters and understand this unique relationship in these pages somewhere.
Melda Beatty has scored a triumphant breakthrough with these revelations.
Get this!.......2006-02-23
Stories from the Soul! Deep, moving, heartfelt. Parts are painful to read due to the brutal honesty but perhaps can be healing just to know others have felt the same way. Black, white or asian can relate to these stories.
Thank you for all those that shared their stories.
Moving, and what bravery!.......2005-11-21
I have read the introduction and just three stories so far in this book [including the editor's]...and WOW, very moving, extremely deep, so well executed and what bravery. It's a remarkable thing to try and overcome a wrenching pain of neglect, seek and have successfully found solace in its troubling existence. I commend Melda Beaty on compiling such a powerful book! I am looking forward to reading all of the stories
Daddy's little princess?.......2005-08-13
Out of the despair of a young woman needing guidance and
affirmation for her existence, MY SOUL TO HIS SPIRIT is born.
Melda Beaty longed for the type of love that tells a young
girl she has worth, beauty and unlimited potential. For a
male love that is disconnected from possession, obsession or
penetration; love that only a father can give. Never knowing
that magnitude of love, she harbored ill feelings for her
father. Traumatized since she was a little girl, her
nightmares ended only after she became a woman with a
legitimate voice, and truly forgave her father.
Since her atonement, Ms. Beaty has been blessed to meet and
share stories with other Black women with similar histories
of overwhelming father-daughter relationships. Relationships
that more often than not, define how we relate to the men in
our lives. MY SOUL TO HIS SPIRT speaks of the totality of our
lives as black women and the full spectrum of kinship with
our fathers.
MY SOUL TO HIS SPIRIT does not bash fathers, however, it does
present a penetrating view from every possible angle. The six
powerful chapters, Loving: Daddy's Girl; Distant: Every Once
in Awhile; Abandon: One Day He Was Gone; Non-Existent: Could
Pass Me on the Street; Amended: Time and Forgiveness Heals
All Wounds; and Deceased: Gone Too Soon, cover the gamut of
emotions daughters have felt for fathers. I applaud Ms. Beaty
and all the daughters who contributed to this book of healing
and strengthening for the family unit. I venture to say each
reader will be familiar with at least one of the offerings.
This is a humbling read; an epiphany.
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Thinking about the Importance of Fatherhood.......2005-07-15
As a future father, I was pleasantly surprised at the balance of this book. The collections of essays, poems, and random thoughts run the gamut of positive, negative, and indifferent relationships that African American women have with their fathers. It gives an accurate portrayal of the importance of fatherhood that will stir the heart of every man that has the pleasure of reading it.
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Jack and Bobby: A Story of Brothers in Conflict
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The book traces the parallel lives of Jack and Bobby Charlton, following them from their schooldays through to the present day. The brothers both played prominent roles in the finest hour of English football, the 1966 World Cup triumph. Each played for the dominant club of their era, and summed up the style of their respective teams. Bobby was at Manchester Utd during their glory days under Sir Matt Busby. He survived the Munich air crash and went on to become a fast, graceful attacker who set grounds alight with his power, speed and athleticism in a team that played free-flowing, attacking football. Jack came to professional football late, working in a coal mine before Leeds signed him. Don Revie's Leeds side was renowned for its uncompromising and physical style, and Jack was himself a tough, durable and aggressive defender, who once caused uproar by admitting he had a 'black book' with a list of footballing enemies who he would target on the pitch. The two retired from football in the same year, and since, the contrast between them has been marked. Bobby's forays into management at Wigan and Preston were distinguished only by their brevity, while 'Big Jack' took the Republic of Ireland team to an unprecendented level of success, reaching the quarter finals of the World Cup in 1994. Bobby has been a key figure in the ongoing success of Manchester United over the past decade, working on recruiting players and as an FA diplomat. But, despite their continued successes, the relationship between the two has been strained, sometimes barely even polite, and the book will investigate the reasons for this, including in-depth interviews with many of those who the two have been in contact with over the years.
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The book traces the parallel lives of Jack and Bobby Charlton, following them from their schooldays through to the present day. The brothers both played prominent roles in the finest hour of English football, the 1966 World Cup triumph. Each played for the dominant club of their era, and summed up the style of their respective teams. Bobby was at Manchester Utd during their glory days under Sir Matt Busby. He survived the Munich air crash and went on to become a fast, graceful attacker who set grounds alight with his power, speed and athleticism in a team that played free-flowing, attacking football. Jack came to professional football late, working in a coal mine before Leeds signed him. Don Revie's Leeds side was renowned for its uncompromising and physical style, and Jack was himself a tough, durable and aggressive defender, who once caused uproar by admitting he had a 'black book' with a list of footballing enemies who he would target on the pitch. The two retired from football in the same year, and since, the contrast between them has been marked. Bobby's forays into management at Wigan and Preston were distinguished only by their brevity, while 'Big Jack' took the Republic of Ireland team to an unprecendented level of success, reaching the quarter finals of the World Cup in 1994. Bobby has been a key figure in the ongoing success of Manchester United over the past decade, working on recruiting players and as an FA diplomat. But, despite their continued successes, the relationship between the two has been strained, sometimes barely even polite, and the book will investigate the reasons for this, including in-depth interviews with many of those who the two have been in contact with over the years.
Customer Reviews:
Fabolous Biography.......2003-12-06
I love football nostaglia, and there are few books better than this. It examines the whole careers of Bobby and Jack Charlton from birth to now. Some great stories here, especially concerning Jack.
Highly recommended.
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- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- How to Walk in the Footsteps of Jesus and the Prophets: A Scripture Reference Guide for Biblical Sites in Israel and Jordan
- I Alone Have Escaped to Tell You: My Life And Pastimes
- I'd Hate Myself in the Morning
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