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"These stories will have you laughing out loud...Highly recommended as a gift for elders, teachers (any grade), anyone interested in history or families, your children, or for yourself!" - Dr. Kathleen E. Kain, Ph.D., Columbia, SC (drkain@sciencespiders.com)
Read the Book for Free!Read a sample story here. If you like it, we'd like to send you one story from the book every month...no strings attached. Why are we doing this? We're betting you like the stories so much, you'll buy several books as gifts before you read all 43 stories. Sign up for the free book at the bottom of one of the sample story pages. Go there by clicking here or baby Jack's bottom.
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Do you know anyone who grew up in the 1910s and 20s?
You do now. It's rare to meet someone who can give a first-hand account of the 20th century's early days...and no one is more entertaining about it than Jack Kamen, the Harnessmaker's Son. Jack was born in 1913 above his father's harness shop in Brownsville, a Yiddish-speaking section of Brooklyn. It was a time of dramatic changes, especially for a rural immigrant family in New York. Jack brings that lost world to life in this humorous, heartwarming, historical collection of stories with universal appeal.
Tales your Grandfather might have told you... told as he would have told them: dozens of short, personal stories, each ending with a twist, usually a laugh.
"It's a good thing you can't smell that sheepskin," Jack warns. "Every baby in Brownsville was photographed on it."
Jack bares all...as he reveals secrets of the Enchanted Outhouse, the Mysterious Yeshiva Fire, and the Great Thanksgiving Fraud. Learn why Jack was in the Oval Office one month and jail the next...why Uncle Youssel sold his soul...and how Jack saved his hide when the Manhater's Club discovered him eavesdropping. Jack's greatest secret--his formula for health, happiness, and longevity--is hidden in every story. It's his attitude, and it's contagious. Read it... Catch it... Pass it on. |
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