Puttin' on Airs: Making It Against the Odds the Story of My Life
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Horatio Alger wrote wildly popular dime novels in the mid to late 1800s about poor boys making good. The theme was always the same; that through honesty, hard work, strong determination,and perseverance, the American Dream could be realized regardless of his beginnings in life.
Puttin on Airs is the authors own story of himself as a poor boy who made good against the odds, a story which could have been written by Horatio Alger. The author describes his life growing up in rural Louisiana as one often children of uneducated parents, under conditions of spirit crushing poverty. He escaped this life by joining the Navy at age 17. Within 5 years time he became an offi cer and aviator and went on to complete a 21 year Navy career. In time he obtained a university degree (with honors), the only member of his family to even attend college. Only 2 of the 10 children even graduated from high school, himself and a sister.
Join the Navy and see the world, the recruiting poster said, and see the world, he did. He has been on 6 continents and in over 40 countries. He was also on the front line of the Cold War from near its beginning to near its end, which included a year in Viet Nam as a helicopter pilot. As a helicopter pilot, he also helped retrieve the astronauts from the sea after their return to earth.
With the same determination and grit that propelled him in his Navy career, he entered private business after retiring from the Navy, which has made him a wealthy man. This well written book should be an inspiration to anyone who enjoys a good rags to riches story.
Benton L. Bradberry
Benton L. Bradberry a servi comme officier et pilote dans la marine des États-Unis de 1955 à 1977, soit pratiquement du début de la guerre froide à sa fin. Sa génération a grandi submer-gée jusqu'au cou dans la propagande shoatique et la germanophobie la plus primaire. Puis, lors-qu'il a servi dans la marine américaine, il a été submergé cette fois-ci par la propagande anti-communiste et la psychose de la guerre propre à l'ère de la guerre froide. Fasciné depuis tou-jours par l'histoire de cette époque, il a beaucoup approfondi ses aspects par ses lectures. Pen-dant ses années dans la marine, il a eu l'occasion de voyager presque partout en Europe. Il a aussi passé beaucoup de temps en Europe en tant que civil. Sceptique de nature, il se doutait bien depuis longtemps que la propagande ne disait pas l’essentiel. Ayant passé des années à fouiller « l'envers de la médaille », il a dès lors écrit un livre sur les fruits de ses recherches ex-haustives. L'auteur est un diplômé en science politique et en relations internationales de la Na-val Post Graduate School (École des études supérieures de la marine) de Monterey, en Califor-nie.
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