num_pages: 228
description: B.S. is a memoir of the fifties and beyond. The authour has held numerous jobs, functioning as a manager, weatherman, salesman, professional poker player, taxi driver, school teacher, coach, writer, bank clerk, private detective, credit analyst, election official caterer, accounting clerk, radio announcer, and caddie among his many pursuits. He has attended fourteen schools and taught in nine. He has visited thirty-two nations, lived in eight states and two countries. Secor has experienced the ultimate joy and the ultimate tragedy that one can encounter on this planet while living through one of the most tumultuous periods in history. This is his story complete with his comments and opinions on his times and environment. The memoir traces the author’s life from his birth in Indianapolis, Indiana to the present day, as he searches for himself and the meaning in life. It is related against the background of the major events of the last half of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first from world War II to the Cuban Missile Crisis, through Vietnam and the Cold War to the tragedy of the Twin Towers.
language: English
title: B.S. Stumbling Toward Valhalla
titlecomplete: B.S. Stumbling Toward Valhalla
publisher: Bookman Publishing