The Perfect Paint Job
The Story of One Man's Struggle Against Hatred
Published on 11. June 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-1-4520-1689-4 (ISBN)
Description
Once Mr. Williams began writing this book, important lessons he'd learned about diversity began to take on even greater meaning. Through the experiences of Trent Taylor Jr., he saw that people's outward attributes are of far less value than what lives in their hearts. By fleshing out his characters, he began to sense that our skin color - that outward "paint job" - is really not the point.
We hope that as you turn the pages of this volume, you'll take that same journey of personal discovery the author experienced. Maybe you'll realize that neighbor from a foreign country isn't out to steal your job, he's just trying to make a good life for his children. Maybe you'll break away from the ethnic stereotypes your forebears believed in. Maybe you'll begin to understand that how an individual looks on the outside bears no correlation to the quality of the person within.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
534 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4520-1689-4 (9781452016894)
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Person
BORN IN PHILADELPHIA, PA. 08/18/1938, SPENT MY FIRST TWELVE YEARS LIVING INNORTH PHILLY HAD TO FIGHT MY WAY TO SCHOOL AND BACK. WENT TO CATHOLICSCHOOL ALL TWELVE YEARS. MOVED TO A MORE UPSCALE SECTION OF THE CITYGERMANTOWN JOINED "THE DOG TOWN BOYS" A STREET GANG. MY FAMILY MOVED TOUPSTATE PA. WHEN I WAS EIGHTEEN THEY BOUGHT A RESTAURANT AND MOTEL. ATEIGHTEEN I TRAVELED TO NIAGRA FALLS AND WENT TO WORK ON THE AMERICAN /CANADIAN HYDRO-ELECTRIC DAM PROJECT. AT TWENTY TRAVELED TO LA, CA WORKEDIN CONSTRUCTION TOOK A FEW CLASSES IN BASIC ENGINEERING. SPENT TIME INMEXICOON BAJA, FAILED TO TELL THE DRAFT BOARD WHERE I WAS LIVING. WHEN IRETURNED TO PA. MY FRIEND MONK CALLED AND ALERTED ME THAT THE FBI WASLOOKING FOR ME AS A DRAFT DODGER. I IMMEDIATELY RE-REGISTERED WITH THEDRAFT BOARD, DRAFTED IN LESS THAN THIRTY DAYS. AFTER BASIC WAS AWARDED ASECRET CLEARANCE AND SHIPPED TO EUROPE. WAS IN THE MILITARY FROM 1961 T01965. WENT TO PENN STATE WITHTHE GI BILL DEGREE IN ENGINEERING AND DESIGN,BECAME INVOLVED IN THE MARTIAL ARTS AND STUDIED WEAPONS GRADUATED ANDWENT TO WORK FOR A LARGE CONSTRUCTION CO. IN PITTSBURG, PA. TRAVELED MOSTOF THE TIME TO MISSOURI, TEXAS, MA., NY., ALSO SPENT TIME IN CANADA. AFTER FIVEYEARS WAS OFFERED A GENERAL MANAGERS POSITION TO RUN A MECHANICAL CO . INPITTSBURGH, PA., AFTER FIVE YEARS THE STEEL PLANTS CLOSED, AND MOVED TO CT. ANDSTARTED A MECHANICAL CO. LICENSED IN THREE STATES, SOLD THE CO. SEVEN YEARSAGO AND SEMI-RETIRED. STILL DO ESTIMATE, SALES, AND NEGOTIATE CONTRACTS. STARTED WRITING IN 1996, AND NOW I CAN'T QUIT, ALL I WANT TO DO IS WRITE.