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Big Russ & me : father and son : lessons of life

"In this warm, engaging memoir, [Tim] Russert casts a fond look back to the 1950s Buffalo neighborhood of his youth. In the close-knit Irish-Catholic community where he grew up, doors were left unlocked at night; backyard ponds became makeshift ice hockey rinks in winter; and streets were commandeered as touch football fields in the fall. And he recalls the extraordinary example of his father, a WWII veteran who worked two jobs without complaint for thirty years and taught his children to appreciate the values of self-discipline, of respect, of loyalty to friends"--Editor's review

Audiobook on Cassette, English, 2004
BBC Audiobooks America/Sound Library, Hampton, NH, 2004