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“those Searching For A Moving Father’s Day Gift Need Look No Further.” —publishers Weekly Men Like John Wayne And John Lennon, Nolan Ryan And Bruce Lee, Cesar Chavez, Christopher Reeve, And Miles Davis Have Touched The Lives Of Millions. But At Home, To Their Children, They Were Not Their Public Personas. They Were Dad. Maybe Davis Didn’t Leave The Office At Five O’clock To Come Home And Play Catch With His Son Erin, But The Man We See Through Erin’s Eyes Is So Alive, So Real, So Not The “king Of Cool” (he Taught His Son To Box, Made A Killer Pot Of Chili, Watched Mtv Alongside Him) That It Brings Us To A Whole New Appreciation For The Artist. Each Of These Forty First-person Narratives—intimate, Heartfelt, Unvarnished, Surprising, And Profoundly Universal—shows Us Not Only A Very Different View Of A Figure We Thought We Knew But Also A Wholly Fresh And Moving Idea Of What It Means To Be A Father. "My Father the Chef. My Father the Cult Leader. My Father the Duke. These men (Jacques Pépin, Saul Newton, and John Wayne, respectively) are among the famous-and infamous-fathers featured in To Me, He Was Just Dad, a collection of first-person essays written by the children of some of the world's most fascinating men. Though these men may be familiar to the reader, their children offer a unique, intimate view of them at their most unvarnished, through heartfelt reflections, charming anecdotes, and archival photographs. Christopher Reeve's son fondly recalls both the adventure-filled days spent copiloting Cessnas with his Superman father, and the ways in which their relationship deepened after Reeve's devastating accident. Evel Knievel's son, Robbie Knievel, reveals the mixture of fear and pride his father had in his son's desire to follow in his footsteps, beginning with jumping his mini-bike over his friends' ten-speeds to eventually succeeding where his father had failed, jumping the Caesars Palace fountains in Las Vegas. And Cesar Chavez's son shares the most important lesson his father ever taught him: "In the fight for justice, you only lose when you stop fighting-you only lose when you quit." Taken together, these and the many other stories featured here serve as a moving celebration of the profound role fathers can play in the lives of their children"-- Provided by publisher "Men like Bruce Lee and Cesar Chavez, Christopher Reeve and Miles Davis have touched the lives of millions. But at home, to their children, they were not their public personas. They were Dad... In this powerful collection, Joshua David Stein and the editors of Fatherly, the publication for dads, bring together forty first-person narratives--intimate, heartfelt, unvarnished, surprising, and profoundly universal--that shows us not only very different views of figures we thought we knew but also a wholly fresh and poignant idea of what it means to be a father."--Back cover