Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History

Colt, George Howe

ISBN 10: 1452660743 ISBN 13: 9781452660745

Casa editrice: Tantor Media Inc, 2012

Riassunto

George Howe Colt believes that he would be an entirely different man had he not grown up in a family of four brothers. In Brothers, he movingly recounts the adoration, envy, rivalry, affection, anger, and compassion in their shifting relationships from childhood through middle age.In alternate chapters, Colt moves from a quest to understand how his own brothers shaped his life to an examination of the complex relationships between iconic brothers in history. Listeners will learn how Edwin Booth grew up to become the greatest actor on the nineteenth-century American stage while his younger brother John grew up to assassinate a president. They will discover how Will Kellogg worked for his older brother John Harvey as a subservient yes-man for two decades until he finally broke free and launched the cereal empire that outlasted all his brother's enterprises. The author also relates how Vincent van Gogh would never have survived without the support of his younger brother, Theo; how Henry David Thoreau's life was shadowed by the early death of his older brother, John; and how the Marx brothers collaborated on the screen but competed offstage for women, money, and fame.Illuminating and affecting, this book will be revelatory for anyone curious about how thoroughly a man's life can be molded by his brothers.

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George Howe Colt is the bestselling author of November of the Soul and The Big House, which was a National Book Award finalist and a New York Times notable book.
David Drummond has been narrating audiobooks for a few years now and hopes one of these days to get it right. He much prefers dead authors and live audiences.

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• Editore: Tantor Media Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1452660743
• ISBN 13: 9781452660745
• Rilegatura: CD MP3