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This book presents the lives of my parents and step-parents—largely in their own words and focusing particularly on how their early ambitions and expectations were compromised by reality. Lawyer Ben Warfield started as a tax attorney and ended in the USIA. Farm girl Lucile Newell dreamed of marrying urban Mister Right and did—on the third try. Bea Whitcomb wanted to escape from home and then from a first husband, and got lucky in her second marriage. Finally, Dick Cooper’s life illustrates how an idealistic youth can set out to shake up the world and settle for much less while retaining his idealism.
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About the Book
This book presents the lives of my parents and step-parents—largely in their own words and focusing particularly on how their early ambitions and expectations were compromised by reality. Lawyer Ben Warfield started as a tax attorney and ended in the USIA. Farm girl Lucile Newell dreamed of marrying urban Mister Right and did—on the third try. Bea Whitcomb wanted to escape from home and then from a first husband, and got lucky in her second marriage. Finally, Dick Cooper’s life illustrates how an idealistic youth can set out to shake up the world and settle for much less while retaining his idealism.
About the Author
During and after a career in the aerospace industry Robert Cooper published short stories, humor pieces and essays in a variety of magazines, as well as a book of nonfiction humor with Penguin. The author also published a suspense novel, The Queen’s Assassin, a humorous character novel, Tex, an amusing novel—Mister Right— about Internet travel, satires titled The President’s Dilemma and The Consumer Cruise Missile, and a mystery, Who Killed Colleen? Cooper graduated with highest honors from the University of California-Berkeley and now lives in Colorado.