The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man Von Drehle David
The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man Von Drehle David One of our nation's most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life…
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The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man Von Drehle David
One of our nation's most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life in the centenarian next door.When a veteran Washington journalist moved to Kansas, he met a new neighbor who was more than a century old. Charlie White was no ordinary neighbor. Little did he know that he was beginning a long friendship--and a profound lesson in the meaning of life.
When a shocking tragedy interrupted his idyllic boyhood, Charlie mastered survival strategies that reflect thousands of years of human wisdom. Born before radio, Charlie lived long enough to use a smartphone. Thus armored, Charlie's sense of adventure carried him on an epic journey across the continent, and later found him swinging across bandstands of the Jazz Age, racing aboard ambulances through Depression-era gangster wars, improvising techniques for early open-heart surgery, and cruising the Amazon