His father, Bernard Leser, had been a legendary magazine publisher. However, the younger Leser could not finish the project because he did not want to use his writing skills and techniques to show his father to be something different than what a loving son thought about his dad. Once he no longer was being held to the project, he started to see his father as a man, a man he loved but also as a son and a father who had flaws and who did not know it all.