Teacher of the Year: The Mystery and Legacy of Edwin Barlow - Softcover

Meyers, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982018312 ISBN 13: 9780982018316

Publisher: H.H. & Sons, 2009

Synopsis

For 35 years, Edwin Barlow taught mathematics at his beloved Horace Greeley High School in Upstate New York. For 35 years, thousands of students passed through his classroom. Yet when he died, he remained as much an enigma as the day he arrived, for he deliberately shrouded his life in rumor and mystery.

About this title

About the Author

Lawrence Meyers studied with Edwin Barlow at Horace Greeley High School, and thereafter graduated Cornell University with a B.A. in Chemistry and attended USC's School of Cinematic Arts. He has written 23 hours, and produced 60 hours, of TV programming including Picket Fences, The Pretender, Roar, When I Grow Up, The Outer Limits, Andromeda, The Net, and Crossing Jordan. He sold two feature film scripts, Superkids (with Stan Lee as producer), and 1001 Nights (with Toby Jaffe as producer). 

Larry has written for finance websites The Motley Fool, SeekingAlpha and InvestorPlace, and his work appears at Yahoo! Finance, Google Finance, Zacks, and MSN Money. His investment articles have generated over 2 million unique page views.

He became the first journalist to cover the companies and stocks in the short-term consumer lending sector. In 2006, he co-founded a private equity venture that provided low-cost short-term loans to consumers and working-capital loans to other lenders. 

 Today, Larry is regarded as a national expert on alternative consumer finance. He consults for hedge funds and private equity via his Council Member status at Gerson Lehman Group, and as a member of Coleman Research Group's Executive Forum. His Op-Eds have appeared in over two dozen newspapers. He also brokers financing, strategic investments, and distressed asset purchases between private equity firms and businesses of all stripes.

His investigative journalism has provided clarity for policymakers, and the public, on fragrance chemistry, vaccine manufacturing, fisheries, statins, biofuel, tobacco taxation, siloxane D5, and a popular keratin hair-straightening treatment. He also pens articles on popular culture. The venues for these works are Breitbart.com and BloggerNews.net.

Larry's second book, Inside the TV Writer's Room: Practical Advice for Succeeding in Television has been praised by both established and aspiring writers for its unique insight into the creative process.

From the Back Cover

For 35 years, Edwin Barlow taught mathematics at his beloved Horace Greeley High School in Upstate New York. For 35 years, thousands of students passed through his classroom. Yet when he died, he remained as much a cipher as the day he arrived, for he deliberately shrouded his life in rumor and mystery. Teacher of the Year: The Mystery and Legacy of Edwin Barlow tells the story of a former student's investigation into the life of his famous, inscrutable teacher, his only clues being a litany of myths spanning four decades. Mister Barlow's classroom persona -- demanding, humorous, profound, frightening -- had already built him into a legend. What remained to be discovered was the past he so carefully guarded, and the method behind his controversial teaching style. Here, for the first time, Mister Barlow's entire past is revealed. Every question is answered, every rumor dispelled, and every myth debunked. What remains is a remarkably human tale, of a man whose dreams were shattered, and how he rebuilt his life to become a unique force in American educational history. From the Depression to World War II and beyond, from the altar of a Massachusetts church to a tiny classroom in New York, from a tightly knit family of six to the despair of self-imposed exile, Edwin Barlow's story is a journey of self-realization and redemption.

From the Inside Flap

From the Depression to World War II and beyond, from the altar of a Massachusetts church to a tiny classroom in New York, from a tightly knit family of six to the despair of self-imposed exile, Edwin Barlow's story is a journey of self-realization and redemption.

Edition details

• Publisher: H.H. & Sons
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0982018312
• ISBN 13: 9780982018316
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340