Why should one want to buy and read this autobiography? This book is for you if you are one of those interested in any of the following: . Genealogy . The great depression . Education . Religion . Choirs . Choirmasters . Organists . Photoengraving . Printing . Advertising . Marketing . Sports . World War II . Selling . Teaching . Marriage . Children . Globalization . Patriotism All of the above was experienced by one man in his lifetime. A life of just one of the Great Generation as Tom Brokaw wrote of it. You may find many circumstances of a personal nature that are similar to what you have read here-one life, one American, one human being’s experience.