The Last Reader Standing: -The Story of a Man who Learned to Read at 54

ISBN-13: 9781936332489 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 174 str.

Archie Willard

Opis

The day Archie lost his thirty-one year job as a laborer at a meat packing company, he was forced to confront the secret he had held so closely for most of his life: at the age of fifty-four, he couldnt read. For all his adult life, hed been able to skirt around the issue. But now, forced to find a new job to support his family, he could no longer hide from the truth. The Last Reader Standing is the story of Archies amazing-and often painful-journey of becoming literate at middle age, struggling with the newfound knowledge of his dyslexia. From the little boy who was banished to the back of the classroom because the teachers labeled him "stupid," Archie emerged to becoming a national figure who continues to enlighten professionals into the world of the learning disabled. He joined Barbara Bush on stage for her Literacy Foundations fundraisers where she proudly introduced him as "the man who took advantage of a second chance and improved his life." This is a touching and poignant story that gives us an eye-opening view of the lack of literacy in our society, and how important it is for all of us to have opportunity to become all that we can be-to have hope and go after our dreams. Archie continues to work with literacy issues in medicine and consumerism.