The Price of Admission: Reflections on Some Personal Heroes

By Tom Word

Biographical essays on some of the author's heroes, including an eccentric conservationist and her war hero husband; the founding CEO of Dover Corporation; the founders of the Virginia furniture and textile industries; three leading CEOs of Virginia furniture and sweatsuit makers; the author's mentor, a Virginia Supreme Court Justice and artist; the author's father, a self educated lawyer and farmer, and younger son, a mechanical genius; a homeless schizophrenic; and a marine corporal who died in combat in Vietnam.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1460981340
• ISBN13: 9781460981344
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"