READ THIS: AGAINST ALL ODDS My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances by Scott Brown
This won't be news to anyone that has read Whom You Know before, but you avid readers know that Peachy Deegan is a proud BC alum and when we can include anything excellent by someone that went to BC, including the law school, we do. The whole mission statement of Whom You Know is based on the motto of Boston College: Ever to Excel. Scott Brown embodies this in everything he does from what we see publicly and from reading this book. However, we would like to interview you Scott! Peachy will have to look you up in the BC directory...
Against All Odds starts off with some sharply challenging times, and as the stories go on and the odds seem to turn into one more bad luck charm, the reader becomes wrapped into a story that seems to be going towards a black abyss. But then a light emerges: in the form of a happy orange sphere, otherwise known as a basketball. We totally relate to this; you remember Peachy herself was a sportswriter for Eagle Action which is now rivals.com and one big area of coverage for her was women's sports, including women's basketball which is the #1 revenue sport for women. Peachy interviewed Cathy Inglese (former BC women's basketball coach) countless times; you've got to love someone from Connecticut that winds up at BC...and you know who was one of the youngest recruits ever: Ayla Brown, Scott's daughter. And in reading Against All Odds, you can see where she gets her basketball talent from. We love the worldwide storyline of how sports are uplifting and teach you life lessons! If you want to read the good news, start with the sports page...
The sheer dedication and determination of Scott Brown is inspirational to the whole world, even if you are not a golden eagle! From his persistence of walking around everywhere bouncing a basketball to doing the five minute mile to make it home in time for curfew, his stories will regale you throughout this work even if the circumstances are stacked against him from day one. He truly has lived an amazing life and rather than recount it all for you we are simply going to say you need to read the book: it is one of the most inspirational books you can read, and we think it is particularly recommended for anyone that comes from a broken home.
Another aspect that is truly extraordinary is his sincerity and complete honesty. A lot of what he mentions cannot have been easy to publicly disclose, and in addition, he did it himself as the author. A lot of people of this stature have co-writers and as we see it there is no co-writer in this press release or title page. But since he went to BC we know he knows that would have been less than excelling-if someone else wrote his story.
From driving his truck to Washington to his down-to-earth manner across the board, Scott Brown has shown the world what a true politician should be: for the people. And the people are for Senator Scott Brown. Though Peachy herself did campaign for Senator Ted Kennedy while she was a student at Boston College, she would have been voting for Scott Brown if she still lived in Massachusetts today. Whom You Know Highly Recommends Against All Odds: it is a must read for anyone with a patriotic heart, a competitive mind, and a will to succeed.
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The extraordinary personal story of a man who, against all odds, rose up to become one of America’s most promising new political figures, Senator Scott Brown.
SCOTT BROWN
AGAINST ALL ODDS
My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances
Scott Brown burst onto the national political scene in 2010 with a major upset to the Democratic machine in Massachusetts. His greatest win however did not occur on that cold January night when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old. In AGAINST ALL ODDS: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances (Harper; February 21, 2011; $27.99) Scott Brown tells the story of his lonely, nomadic life, shunted from house to apartment, and town-to-town, seventeen times over his first eighteen years. He survived a largely absent father who spun elaborate tales of his own success but never displayed a single photo of his young son. Both his mother and father each married four separate times, in relationships stained with alcohol, anger, and violence. For nearly two decades, Brown endured hunger and quasi-abandonment, periodically sent off to live with relatives, his possessions wrapped in a few old blankets. Saved by basketball, he was the boy who shoveled snow off the public courts to shoot hoops alone in the frozen cold.
AGAINST ALL ODDS is the highly anticipated gripping memoir of the hottest rising star in politics today. It is a story of resilience and redemption, covering Brown’s difficult childhood, his brief modeling days in New York, his devotion to his wife and children, and his triumphant election to the United States Senate. With clear-eyed conviction and unflinching candor, Brown tells the story of his sometimes troubled youth, of the coaches who mentored him, and of how he found a way out of familial chaos through the swish of a ball in the net, winning a starting spot on the Tufts Varsity basketball team and becoming the tenth highest scorer to graduate in the school’s history. His rise from there was meteoric: a freshman law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as Cosmopolitan magazine’s “America’s Sexiest Man,” and was vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling at the height of the 1980s. But the man who was once ushered into the back room of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to settle down, raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Here too are the secrets from the unprecedented Senate race that captured the country’s imagination and how Scott Brown won his remarkable victory.
Moving, heartfelt, funny, and profound, AGAINST ALL ODDS is the story of one man’s dream and his determination to fight for a better future.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
U.S. Senator Scott Brown was elected by the people of Massachusetts on January 19, 2010 to fill the term of the late Senator Ted Kennedy. He lives in Wrentham, Massachusetts with his wife Gail and their two daughters, Ayla and Arianna.
AGAINST ALL ODDS: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances
By Scott Brown
Harper
February 21, 2011
ISBN 13: 9780062015549 /$27.99 /336 pages
The extraordinary personal story of a man who, against all odds, rose up to become one of America’s most promising new political figures, Senator Scott Brown.
SCOTT BROWN
AGAINST ALL ODDS
My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances
Scott Brown burst onto the national political scene in 2010 with a major upset to the Democratic machine in Massachusetts. His greatest win however did not occur on that cold January night when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old. In AGAINST ALL ODDS: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances (Harper; February 21, 2011; $27.99) Scott Brown tells the story of his lonely, nomadic life, shunted from house to apartment, and town-to-town, seventeen times over his first eighteen years. He survived a largely absent father who spun elaborate tales of his own success but never displayed a single photo of his young son. Both his mother and father each married four separate times, in relationships stained with alcohol, anger, and violence. For nearly two decades, Brown endured hunger and quasi-abandonment, periodically sent off to live with relatives, his possessions wrapped in a few old blankets. Saved by basketball, he was the boy who shoveled snow off the public courts to shoot hoops alone in the frozen cold.
AGAINST ALL ODDS is the highly anticipated gripping memoir of the hottest rising star in politics today. It is a story of resilience and redemption, covering Brown’s difficult childhood, his brief modeling days in New York, his devotion to his wife and children, and his triumphant election to the United States Senate. With clear-eyed conviction and unflinching candor, Brown tells the story of his sometimes troubled youth, of the coaches who mentored him, and of how he found a way out of familial chaos through the swish of a ball in the net, winning a starting spot on the Tufts Varsity basketball team and becoming the tenth highest scorer to graduate in the school’s history. His rise from there was meteoric: a freshman law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as Cosmopolitan magazine’s “America’s Sexiest Man,” and was vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling at the height of the 1980s. But the man who was once ushered into the back room of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to settle down, raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Here too are the secrets from the unprecedented Senate race that captured the country’s imagination and how Scott Brown won his remarkable victory.
Moving, heartfelt, funny, and profound, AGAINST ALL ODDS is the story of one man’s dream and his determination to fight for a better future.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
U.S. Senator Scott Brown was elected by the people of Massachusetts on January 19, 2010 to fill the term of the late Senator Ted Kennedy. He lives in Wrentham, Massachusetts with his wife Gail and their two daughters, Ayla and Arianna.
AGAINST ALL ODDS: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances
By Scott Brown
Harper
February 21, 2011
ISBN 13: 9780062015549 /$27.99 /336 pages
