I Remember

by Dan Rather

Book Overview

Dan Rather's memoir about growing up in Texas during the late 1930s and early 1940s is a portrait of family and community life during that time and of a country just recovering from the Great Depression and on the brink of World War II.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316734403
• ISBN13: 9780316734400
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A Norman Rockwell Childhood

This pleasant biography relates episodes from Rather's childhood in the 30s and 40s. His life is shaped by his Texas heroes, river rafting like Huck Finn, selling newspapers on a Houston street corner, listening to war news on the radio and being confined for months to bed by rheumatic fever. I'm surprised that Rather didn't apply his wordsmithing to this, but worked with a co-writer. The result is not of the quality of Angela's Ashes; lacking compelling detail and life or death feelings. Still, it helps define the character building influences of a figure familiar to Americans from their daily TV news. It also gives a slice-of-life view of an era that feels like an old Saturday Evening Post cover by Norman Rockwell.

Wonderful Book

This book is a treasure. Dan Rather talks about his admiration for his mother and father, his early struggles in the work world, especially his blue collar labor times in early adulthood. It was neat how he admired his father so much for his strength, honesty and courage. In this book, we get insights into a very interesting man and one of the best broadcasters in history, Dan Rather. Rather's character shines through in this book...a character full of deep appreciation for life and the lessons it teaches. Jeffrey McAndrew author of "Our Brown-Eyed Boy"