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Loading... Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sonsby Tim Russert
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Russert died unexpectedly in 2008. He was eulogized admiringly by many journalists for his "impartial" handling of the news, especially the presidential campaign. He was the primary witness in the perjury trial against "Scooter" Libby in 2007, although basically it was a conflict of whose memory was more accurate. After Big Russ and Me was such a success so many people wrote in to Tim about their fathers and this book, and the CD with Tim reading the words both are a treasure! With Tim Russert taken from us so soon, his words on the CD are comforting and treasured! no reviews | add a review
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Each letter conveys the love that the authors have for their dads and, as a father myself, makes me want to ensure that no matter what happens, that I create special memories for my children. As some stories tell, some fathers didn’t even know that something seemingly so insignificant that they did could have such an impact on his children.
Perhaps the only negative point is, oddly enough, Russert’s contributions before each letter. The letters would certainly do well on their own, and Russert’s comments came across as his simply wanting to add his $0.02 to each. While I’m sure they were intended to introduce and summarize the story that followed, it really only distracted from the story itself.
In a time where fathers are constantly being portrayed on television as bumbling idiots, this book sheds light on what true fatherhood means. (