American story
Subtitle: a lifetime search for ordinary people doing extraordinary things
By: Bob Dotson
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9781611737363
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Social life and customs; Manners and customs; American National characteristics; Biography; Anecdotes
Description: Dotson has been crisscrossing the country for more than forty years--logging more than four million miles--in search of people who have quietly but profoundly changed our lives and our country for the better. Now, in American Story, he presents a road map to the unsung heroes with thoughtful solutions to problems we all face, incredible ideas that work, and blueprints to living our dreams.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Viking, 2013.
Table of contents: title: Out beyond the limits of settled lives; title: See what we all see, but think what no one else has thought; title: Fanfare for the common good; title: Thinking more of others than they do themselves; title: Stories hiding in history's shadow; title: What if?; title: America works best with a level playing field; title: They never let a handicap, handicap them; title: Where a game is still a game and not a bottom line; title: Homesick for places we've never been; title: Fame is a vapor; title: Playing a bad hand well over and over again.