Why should anyone read this? Because the end effect is restorative and invigorating and because everyone who's ever had a father like this wants to believe there is a happy way out. The author was born in the bottom of the Depression. His early life was normal for the times. By the time he graduated from high school, he'd won the school's golf championship twice, earned many varsity letters in four sports, and had learned to box. But he'd also been touched by death five times --- his mother when he was 16, her brother in the war, and his maternal and paternal grandparents. After high school,...