Have I Told You about ...?: Knitting Together the Yarns of My Life 9781543946864

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Автор: Justin Wyner
Название: Have I Told You about ...?: Knitting Together the Yarns of My Life
ISBN: 9781543946864
Издательство: Bookbaby
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ISBN-10: 1543946860
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 400
Вес: 1.50 кг.
Дата издания: 05.05.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 285 x 75 x 222
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Knitting together the yarns of my life
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: Sit down with Justin Wyner, and you never know where in time or place youll end up. As he shares stories of his own life and those of his family, he travels over four continents and as far as 150 years back in time. Hell take you from the Lithuanian shtetl where his fathers father was born to the Boston of Mayor James Michael Curley and where that same grandfather built Americas second Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Justin may take you to 1930s Paris, where his cousin interviewed Pablo Picasso in his studio, or leap back over the ocean to the Ritz, where Justin met such legends as Benny Goodman and Eddie Cantor.And then there are the many stories of Justins career, transforming a historic textile mill into a high-tech manufacturer of materials that can be found in hospital surgery wards and automobiles around the world; of his civic life, rising through the ranks of Brookline politics to town meeting moderator and spearheading a national Republicans for Gene McCarthy campaign; of his service to the Jewish community, seeing Bostons largest Reform congregation through rocky times as temple president, easing tension with the black community as head of what is today the Jewish Community Relations Council and preserving communal history as president of the American Jewish Historical Society and its New England chapter. Thats just the public Justin. Somehow he found time to raise three sons with his wife of 63 years, Genevieve; pilot sailboats along the New England coast and in the Caribbean (befriending the president of one island nation); and manage a menagerie of pets, from chickens to dogs to cats, even playing matchmaker and midwife to an English sheepdog.And theres more: from Yogi Berra to Ted Kennedy, pre-Castro Havana to underground Jerusalem, from chatting with a king by ham radio to finding a surefire way to predict which horse will win at Saratoga.Justins story is at once a personal memoir, a family saga and a chapter in Jewish-American history. Its also a summation of the lessons he learned as a leader in the business, civic and religious realms. Most of all - and its modest author might dispute this - a guide to how to make the most of life.

Have I Told You about ...?: Knitting Together the Yarns of My Life, Justin Wyner