Biography & Autobiography General
To Soar, Like Icarus
Portrait of a Self-Made Man
- Publisher
- Trafford Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2014
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781490734033
- Publish Date
- Apr 2014
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
The hero of this book was working in a coal mine at age twelve. Despite his lack of education, he pulled himself up to become a highly successful businessman. There is something quintessentially heroic about defying the hopeless hand one was dealt . . . and turning it into straight aces. The fact that our hero John lost it all on another gamble just makes him more truly human and fragile. "From pride, from greed, he fell anew; by woman’s wiles was pierced through. Like Icarus, he flew too high and tried too hard to touch the sky."
About the author
Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, Alan J. Yates moved to Canada in his late teens, where he pursued a career in journalism and broadcasting, much of it with the CBC. He also pursued an academic path on the side, with graduate degrees in Communications from McGill University in Montreal and taught Communications at the University of Ottawa. Now retired, he lives in Ottawa.