A deeply personal exploration of fatherhood, addiction, and resiliency from Craig Melvin, news anchor of NBC's Today show.  For Craig Melvin this book is more an investigation than a memoir. It's an opportunity to better understand his father; to interrogate his family's legacy of addiction and despair but also transformation and redemption; and to explore the challenges facing all dads--including Craig himself, a father of two young children. Growing...

Writer Pat Conroy couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the man he'd long hated sticking up for Pat's honor shortly before the once-hated man died. That man was Donald Patrick Conroy, Pat's father. The publication of 'The Great Santini' shoved father and son farther apart than ever before. Despite this, Pat recounts how his once-abusive father stood up for his son in Donald Patrick Conroy's final days.

"House author Jonathan Kozol's deeply personal biography of his father, a brilliant neurologist who suffered from Alzheimer's.There are few writers of conscience who write as beautifully as Jonathan Kozol.Departing from the South Bronx and turning his sensitive eye to his own life and legacy, The Theft of Memory is Kozol's most personal book to date, as it explores the life of his father, Harry. Dr. Harry L. Kozol was a nationally-renowned neurologist...