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Even at the age of five, the mournful sound of a train whistle stirred Joseph Friedman's imagination. Destiny had big plans for him, and he would be on board. Friedman's autobiography spans eighty-plus years of a life lived fully. You'll discover the blissful abandon of his childhood despite growing up during the Depression, the gut-wrenching horrors of the Holocaust as a concentration camp liberator, becoming a doctor, and at the age of forty-two, abandoning it all to follow his dream to Broadway.

"Preeeeep." The sound of the peepers, tiny frogs an inch or two long, penetrated the dusk. Beneath the jack pines at the edge of a small pond in the northern Michigan woods, the males were calling their mates. A professor and a group of ecology students sat speechless as closer and closer, louder and louder, more and more peepers joined in chorus. There was just light enough to see them, crawling up a bracken fern to find a singing perch, filling their throats with air like tiny balloons about to burst and then giving forth at close range an ear-splitting 'preeeeep.; . . . Now we were...