To Me, He Was Just Dad

Those searching for a moving Fathers Day gift need look no further. Publishers Weekly Men like John Wayne and John Lennon, Nolan Ryan and Bruce Lee, Cesar Chavez, Christopher Reeve, and Miles Davis have touched the lives of millions. But at home, to their children, they were not their public personas. They were Dad. Maybe Davis didnt leave the office at five oclock to come home and play catch with his son Erin, but the man we see through Erins eyes is so alive, so real, so not the king of cool (he taught his son to box, made a killer pot of chili, watched MTV alongside him) that it brings us to a whole new appreciation for the artist. Each of these forty first-person narrativesintimate, heartfelt, unvarnished, surprising, and profoundly universalshows us not only a very different view of a figure we thought we knew but also a wholly fresh and moving idea of what it means to be a father.