If you want to know what it was like to grow up on a forty-acre muck farm in western Michigan in the 1920s and '30s, read this fascinating account of a lad who did. It's an eye-opener. If you really want to know exactly what it's like to have your parents take little note of your talents and gifts, immerse yourself in this heartfelt narrative. You'll be touched by it. If you would like to know what it takes for a young man with only an eighth-grade education to succeed in life as a top-rate machinist, tool maker and shop foreman; trace the route that Elmer C. Raad took to get there. It's an...