Rare Birds: An American Family by Dan Bessie
Rare Birds: An American Family by Dan Bessie
The University Press of Kentucky | October 19, 2000 | English | ISBN: 0813121795 | 305 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The University Press of Kentucky | October 19, 2000 | English | ISBN: 0813121795 | 305 pages | PDF | 4 MB
What does a writer do when he's got a family that includes a blacklisted member of the Hollywood Ten, the brains behind Tony the Tiger and the Marlboro Man, a trio of gay puppeteers, the world's leading birdwatcher, sixties hippies, a Dutch stowaway who served in an all-black regiment during the American Civil War, a mother of unusual compassion and understanding, and a convicted murderer? He tells their stories and secrets, illuminating 150 years of American life along the way. Dan Bessie begins the journey through his family history with his great-grandfather in the cargo hold of a ship bound for New York on the storm-tossed Atlantic.