Take Two: True Stories of Real People Who Dared to Change Their Lives

Jo Brans

ISBN 10: 0385243480 ISBN 13: 9780385243483

Published by Doubleday, 1989

Language: English

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Title

Take Two: True Stories of Real People Who Dared to Change Their Lives

Publisher

Doubleday

Publication Date

1989

Language

English

ISBN 10

0385243480

ISBN 13

9780385243483

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Very Good

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Very Good

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In this collection profiling people who took deliberate steps to change their lives drastically, the common thread is what Brans ( Mother, I Have Something to Tell You ) calls "gumption." For all, three stages characterized the process by which they sought change: discontent, provocation, crisis. Among those interviewed are Katherine Fanning, former editor of the Christian Science Monitor ; Hope Cooke, ex-queen of Sikkim; A. Bartlett Giamatti, now baseball commissioner, once Yale president; and others of less renown--a monk who became an animal psychologist; a foundation president who is now an innkeeper. Such people who "move on" are expressly admired by the author, even when their desired goals are not fully achieved, as aggressive risk-takers. Readers contemplating their own "second acts" will find the book supportive.
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