Description
As a boy, Stephen J. Dubner's hero was Franco Harris, the famed and mysterious running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers. When Dubner's father died, he became obsessed--he dreamed of his hero every night; he signed his school papers Franco Dubner. Though they never met, it was Franco Harris who shepherded Dubner through a fatherless boyhood. Years later, Dubner journeys to meet his hero, certain that Harris will embrace him. And he is . . . well, wrong.
Told with the grit of a journalist and the grace of a memoirist, Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper is a breathtaking, heartbreaking, and often humorous story of astonishing developments. It is also a sparkling meditation on the nature of hero worship--which, like religion and love, tells us as much about ourselves as about the object of our desire.
Author: Stephen J. Dubner
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 07/03/2007
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.40w x 0.73d
ISBN13: 9780061132988
ISBN10: 0061132985
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical