Summary of Leigh Steinberg & Michael Arkush's The Agent

By IRB Media

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#1 I began to believe that the entire world was filled with Jewish comedians. Grandpa, along with Burns, took me to my first professional baseball game three years before the Dodgers arrived from Brooklyn.

#2 I had a very progressive father who was very sad on election night in 1956 when Adlai Stevenson lost to Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was eternally optimistic, and he preferred to see the good in human nature. I adopted the same attitude.

#3 I grew up in a family that struggled to get by, but we never felt deprived. We had many other riches to savor: simple ones, such as our dog, Harry, named after the book Harry the Dirty Dog, or playing hide-and-go-seek or rubber-band wars.

#4 I grew up in an area with few Jewish families. I played with the blacks and Mexicans and Asians in my neighborhood, and I felt like part of their families. I never let the peer pressure on the street compromise my core principles.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822521452

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I began to believe that the entire world was filled with Jewish comedians. Grandpa, along with Burns, took me to my first professional baseball game three years before the Dodgers arrived from Brooklyn.

#2

I had a very progressive father who was very sad on election night in 1956 when Adlai Stevenson lost to Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was eternally optimistic, and he preferred to see the good in human nature. I adopted the same attitude.

#3

I grew up in a family that struggled to get by, but we never felt deprived. We had many other riches to savor: simple ones, such as our dog, Harry, named after the book Harry the Dirty Dog, or playing hide-and-go-seek or rubber-band wars.

#4

I grew up in an area with few Jewish families. I played with the blacks and Mexicans and Asians in my neighborhood, and I felt like part of their families. I never let the peer pressure on the street compromise my core principles.

#5

I had many fond memories of my childhood, but life was complicated. I had a large, loving extended family, but I was also very close with my brother Jim, who became an adult, and my other brother Don, who was an athlete.

#6

I was always the odd man out in my own home. I didn’t know when the loving mother might turn into the absent one. I couldn’t completely trust her. I didn’t know when the absent mother would turn into the loving one.

#7

I was elected student body president in 1965, and I spent the next three years trying to make a difference. I was not as intelligent as the other kids in my classes, so I assumed I would have to go to Santa Monica College. But my father knew about my intelligence, and he told