Passing the Torch

About the Book

From an Italian ghetto to the Board Room, only in America. Here is a first person memoir of the son of an immigrant factory worker through the Great Depression and WW II, as portrayed by Tom Brokaw’s third person account in the Greatest Generation. Passing the Torch tells the Horatio Alger story of the odyssey that culminated as the CEO of a nationally known company. It is an inspirational message to all, a tribute to his many contemporaries. ] It tells of the 7day-a-week struggle for a college degree, the humorous experience with the use of “no doze” pills, for a magna cum laude graduation attended by his sons, including the struggle he faced as a “vowel” person. The story does sound like a fairy tale and it indeed has a fairy tale ending, including a beautiful love story, which has encompassed 60 years. Napoleon has said Providence is on the side of the last survivor. Here is the charming tale of the “last survivor.”

About the Author

From an Italian ghetto to the Board Room as CEO of a division of a national organization, this memoir depicts the story of a son of a mill worker’s struggles to survive the Great Depression as one of the Greatest Generation, so well-titled by Tom Brokaw. Thus heart-warming, first person, human interest, intimate tale tells of the pain, poverty, and pride (including a love story) of a vanishing age that distinguishes his generation from that of the new millennium. How the ethnic and economic stumbling blocks are described as stepping stones to success including the presidency of a savings bank. His college graduation, magna cum laude, attended by his three sons, may not have been the typical graduation ceremony, but perhaps the proudest, happiest and hardest earned. Although the author does tell what seems to be a fairy tale, the odyssey does conclude with a happy, fairy tale ending.