Showing posts with label author. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 6, 2010

Son of Man(chester)

No father is just a name. This week's objet d'eBay is the autograph of writer William Manchester. Author of works on large figures and thoughts of history, Manchester was also the son of a soldier he idolized and father of children who were pledged to him. His son, musician John Manchester, has just published a short essay, "Building My Father's Coffin,"  which will be featured in a promised, upcoming memoir of life with a great man who wrote about great men.

Monday, January 5, 2009

Dreaming and Scheming

Headlines in France (and about current French news) are asking Who's The Daddy of Justice Minister Rachida Dati's daughter Zohra. Some say that if the rumor is true that pops is President Sarkozy's bro it would explain how the mom has kept her job despite a fair amount of sniping about how she is handling her job.

The employment drama of former Florida governor Jeb Bush also is making some headlines as his father declared his son "as qualified and as able as anyone I know in the political scene" to be president. Many oberservers of the Bush family dynamic have long whispered that this was true for POTUS 41 long before and certainly during the reign of error of Jeb brother, POTUS 43 ... and cinematic W.

Sometimes how the dad paves the way is obvious — as in the case of California 10-year-old Paris, who is unlikely to be an author of multiple books without her dad, a publishing company president, helping out. Other times, you know the dad is behind the success of his child — as is seen as Jastie Singka heads off to school, the son of an elementary school graduate but determined father — , but it is time that will tell the story of how much and what kind of favor the scion will discover.

The public may be unaware of Zohra's father is thinking, but it is nearly certain he is dreaming and scheming some beautiful future for his daughter ... in case he is able to take the opportunities available to give it to her.