Warts and All

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Having reached age four score, Mansfield expressed concern about who might want to read "a geezer's musings." Still, he chose the book's title, WARTS AND ALL, meaning 'the whole thing, not concealing the less attractive parts.' It's about family and friends, wins and losses, triumphs and failures, praise and derision, love and hate, humor and pathos, wisdom and folly, commendation and reproach, conservatism and liberalism, joy and sadness, war and peace and just about anything else. His primary inspiration is the late Dr. Charles Krauthammer, specifically his 2015 book, Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics. Per Amazon, he was "America's preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation." Mansfield considers him a man of unparalleled intellect. The other major inspiration is Mansfield's lifelong friend, classmate and teammate, Tom Kiley, co-author of their acclaimed 2021 book THE PERFECT SEASON: The Untold Story of Chaminade High School's First Undefeated and Untied Varsity Football Team. This work is eclectic non-fiction that is honest, humorous, politically incorrect, no-nonsense and timely. For readers of Mansfield's earlier books, the stories herein may be familiar, for many of them, like Dr. Krauthammer's, derive from ones already published.

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Pagina's: 698, Hardcover, Xlibris Corporation