"As new condition textured blue boards with a black spine and blue spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Dedication; and Preliminary Page Quote by T.S. Eliot. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Signed and inscribed by the author in thick black marker on the half title page. """"Bestselling author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters' lives would be like without him. """"Would they wonder who I was? Would they wonder what I thought? Would they yearn for my approval, my love, my voice?"""" Three days later he came up with a stirring idea of how he might give them that voice. He would reach out to six men from all the passages in his life, and ask them to be present in the passages in his daughters' lives. And he would call this group """"The Council of Dads."""" """"I believe my daughters will have plenty of opportunities in their lives."""" he wrote to these men. """"They'll have loving families. They'll have each other. But they may not have me. They may not have their dad. Will you help be their dad? The Council of Dads is the inspiring story of what happened next. Feiler introduces the men in his Council and captues the life lesson he wants each to convey to his daughters - how to see, how to travel, how to question, how to dream. He mixes these with an intimate, highly personal chronicle of his experience battling cancer while raising young children, along with vivid portraits of his father, his two grandfathers, and various father figures in his life that explore the changing role of fathers in America. This is the work of a master storyteller confronting the most difficult experience of his life and emerging with wisdom and hope. THe Council of Dads is a touching, funny, and ultimately deeply moving book on how to live life, how the human spirit can respond to adversity, and how to deepen and cherish the friendships that enrich our lives."""" - from the inner front jacket flap. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Bruce Feiler is the New York Times bestselling author of nine books, including Walking the Bible, Abraham, and America's Prophet, as well as the host of the documentary series Walking the Bible on PBS. An award-winning author, journalist, and speaker, Feiler is a graduate of Yale and Cambridge universities. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Linda Rottenberg, and their identical twin daughters."