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An Alcoholic to His Sons
This is the completely candid confessional history of a compulsive drinker, addressed to his sons. It covers every aspect of a key problem in our society. How does an intelligent, successful man let himself slip down the inclined plane which leads to helpless alcoholism? What are his rationalizations? How does he slide from the occasional drink to the occasional drunkenness, from the social cocktail to secret drinking, to lying, to eventual mindless incompetence? What are the danger signals along the way and what are the possibilities of cure? Each on of these questions is taken up frankly in this book. It is a fascinating story, one of degradation and eventual regeneration. Its sheer readability will attract many - the story it tells should help many more HIS IS THE COMPLETELY CANDID CONFESSIONAL..." Topics Include: The WHY of These Pages
June 17, 1985 Milestones DIED. Henry Beetle Hough, 88, journalist, author and environmental conscience who owned, edited and published the Vineyard Gazette, one of America's best country weeklies, from 1920 to 1968 and continued as its editor almost until his death; in Edgartown, Mass., on the offshore island of Martha's Vineyard. Hough's often poetic descriptions of everyday island events and the passing seasons, and his fervent quest to protect the Vineyard from mindless development, brought a steady growth in readership, while his popular book Country Editor (1940), followed by 21 novels, histories, children's tales and...continued time magazine wanted me to pay to get the rest of this obit. | |
