Harry Gossett

My Blendville (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

My Blendville is a trip to a magical place. It was a very real neighborhood 75 years ago, but now it lives on in the memory of a little boy who grew up there. For those who had similar experiences in the 1940s and 1950s it will be a fun reminder of the good, the bad, the ugly, and the sexy. People born later might be amazed at the antics of free ranging children back when there were fewer people, more animals, and no air-conditioning or home insulation to muffle the sounds of whatever was going on in the vicinity. Harry Gossett and his sister Annie are the central characters in this memoir. They encouraged one another as playmates, inventors, urban farmers, entrepreneurs, and writers, all before they started high school. The gender relations, child rearing, and schooling they experienced will seem medieval to 21st century readers, but those draconian measures only enhanced the joy of accomplishment for the kids who somehow survived playing in abandoned mines, vacant houses, and empty barns, while keeping most of their activities secret from grownups.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BookBaby
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781098320621
• Artikelnr.: 60026383

Autorenporträt

After he left Blendville at the age of 15, Harry Gossett has supported himself, repeatedly declining offers of money from his father. His parents always knew where he was and what he was doing. For years, they saw one another at church every Sunday morning. Harry's next seven decades have been as offbeat as his first decade and a half. He served in the United States Marine Corp during the Vietnam war, but not in Vietnam. Harry helped keep California safe from invaders. During 20 years in the FBI he progressed from Security Patrol to Special Agent Field Supervisor, managing undercover operations, overseeing the development of Confidential Human Sources and training other agents in the esoteric arts involved in taking down sophisticated criminal cabals, neutralizing hostile intelligence efforts and dismantling terrorist organizations. Then, Mr. Gossett, and his wife, the love of his life, traveled the world unraveling commercial conspiracies and locating missing heirs and witnesses. He continued to train federal agents as a contractor and taught fraud auditing techniques to Certified Public Accountants.