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Zusatztext "Morris mixes humor and social commentary in this courageous book...Ultimately! the inspirational memoir captures all the needed laughs and emotions that go with love and life in the waning years of parent-child bonding." Informationen zum Autor Lifelong Michigander Bob Morris has spent his entire career involved in public service. He was a middle school teacher in the Detroit Public Schools before moving to Lansing in 1976 to work for the Michigan House of Representatives. For the next 38 years, he represented public institutions to the state legislature in the pursuit of setting good public policy for Michigan. He also worked for Gov. James Blanchard and the Michigan departments of transportation and education. During his time with the state, Bob fought for greater funding of Michigan's transportation infrastructure and tougher high school graduation standards, and promoted strong labor policies. In the 1990s, he was Assistant County Executive to County Executive Edward McNamara, where he was a key player in establishing the Wayne County Airport Authority Act. Bob ended his career as a policy advisor to the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments. He is retired and lives in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with his wife, Terry. He grew up in southeastern Michigan during the 1950s and 1960s at the knees of some of the greatest labor and political leaders in the state. He graduated from Birmingham Seaholm High School and earned a teaching degree and Masters in Public Administration degree from Western Michigan University. Bob wrote the nonfiction book, Built in Detroit: A story of the UAW, a Company and a Gangster, which was published in 2013. For more about Bob and that book, check out www.builtindetroit.net. Books can be purchased at Amazon.com or BarnesAndNoble.com. Klappentext What would you do if your eighty-year-old father dragged you into his hell-bent hunt for new love?A few months after the death of his wife, Joe Morris, an affable, eccentric octogenarian, needs a replacement. If he can get a new hip, he figures, why not a new wife? At first, his skeptical son Bob (whose own love life is a disaster) is appalled. But suspicion quickly turns to enthusiasm as he finds himself trolling the personals, screening prospects, chaperoning, and offering etiquette tips to his needy father. Assisted Loving is a warm, witty, and wacky chronicle of a father, a son, and their year of dating dangerously. Zusammenfassung What would you do if your eighty-year-old father dragged you into his hell-bent hunt for new love? A few months after the death of his wife! Joe Morris! an affable! eccentric octogenarian! needs a replacement. If he can get a new hip! he figures! why not a new wife? At first! his skeptical son Bob (whose own love life is a disaster) is appalled. But suspicion quickly turns to enthusiasm as he finds himself trolling the personals! screening prospects! chaperoning! and offering etiquette tips to his needy father. Assisted Loving is a warm! witty! and wacky chronicle of a father! a son! and their year of dating dangerously. ...
