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| Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons | 
 enlarge | Author: Tim Russert
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  111 reviews
Sales Rank: 1434
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 081297543X
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.8742
EAN: 9780812975437
ASIN: 081297543X
Publication Date: May 15, 2007
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 Russert's compilation has heart. You will find your dad in here. June 10, 2006
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
Tim Russert, the best in the biz when it comes to political interviewing, has shown his softer side again with this book. The book will draw out all emotions from the reader. Happiness, sadness, nostalgia, and much more are just some of the things you'll experience when you read this one.
Russert stays out of the way for most of the book, but his introduction is brilliant. Tim loves his dad and his son. It's evident from this book.
I guarantee, you'll find your dad in this book.
 Good Father's Day Material May 23, 2006
16 out of 20 found this review helpful
"Wisdom of Our Fathers" purports to help fathers to "get it right," and to understand that sometimes the little moments can make a big difference to a child. The book is the outgrowth of close to 60,000 overwhelmingly positive letters and e-mails about mostly ordinary men - sent to Russert in response to his earlier book about Tim's own father.
A big theme is that the most precious things a father can provide are time, attention, and love. Another is that many of the fathers were relatively silent and modest, while a third is how often the sons and daughters are often acutely aware of how their fathers never said "I love you."
While each person's story is short, they are well-focused, and do achieve Russert's objective. Getting there takes readers off to basic training, weddings, graduation, going to ball games, giving a child a new bicycle, helping a stranger, providing wisdom in short phrases, etc.
 Slight and trite January 30, 2007
15 out of 27 found this review helpful
My mother-in-law bought this for my husband, and a copy each for his two sisters too, in an effort to get the adult siblings to think more about their relationships with their dad, who is getting on in years. I volunteered to read it as it looked like a quick read.
It was that. I finished it in an afternoon-and-a-half. It was fine. It was not revelatory and it was on many occasions cliche-ridden. There were also occasions where I teared up, but then again I cry when people win on game shows.
It really isn't a book in and of itself so much as a collection of brief anecdotes submitted by Russert's readers in response to his other book that he wrote about his own dad. Russert's contribution includes a page or two at the top of each chapter -- usually worth reading -- and then very odd, distracting one-sentence "intros" to each of the anecdotes within the chapters. I'd nix those in the paperback printing. They were confusing as they were sometimes written in Russert's own voice, and sometimes in the voice of the author of the upcoming anecdote.
All in all, it was fine. It was well-written for the most part, both by the submitters of anecdotes and Russert himself. It didn't shed any light on anything for me, and I don't think it would for many many people. It's just sort of like a nice Hallmark card, writ large.
Have a box of tissues ready. May 28, 2006
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
In fact, have 2!
The book is an easy read. Every story makes a great point to be shared for generations. I'm sure it wasn't easy for Mr. Russert to select from the 60,000 letters/emails. Only another man with great character could recognize stories with great lessons.
This is a great gift not only for Father's Day but for anyone that needs a little comfort that they are doing ok as a father. I purchased the book for a friend, a young father, with equal integrity and character. A gift to let him know that he can stop worrying if he is being a good father. He and his wife are great parents and are good enough to be in that book. I used the intro page to let him know just that!
Great idea Mr. Russert ... great book.
This is a "20 Stars" book....every page of it! June 13, 2006
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
I have long admired Tim Russert's "on camera" abilities, and his writing skills have only increased my admiration for him, his wife Maureen, and their son Luke. WISDOM OF OUR FATHERS is a gift from the hearts of many people to Russert in response to his first work BIG RUSS AND ME.
In turn, Tim Russert has shared the gift given to him from more than 60,000 people with the world in this short, but powerful volume.
I read the entire book in less than one evening. I just couldn't put it down. It was that captivating and inspiring.
Since my father abandoned me when I was very young, and has since dropped in and out of my life sporadically, this book was a real treasure for me. These letters and anecdotes have convinced me that not every father is the "scoundrel" that mine was.
This book covers all the important topics: Baseball, Daddy's girl, Forgiveness, Security, and some terrific one-liners at the end.
Will make a terrific gift for any man.
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