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It's the
Loose Leaf Book Company, and here's what host Tom Bodett has to say about
this week's show:
Achilles,
one of the most legendary heroic figures of all time, was a brave warrior,
a great leader, and a perfect jerk -- vindictive, rageful, a philanderer,
and a brooder with a bad foot. But he was bigger than life, thus, a hero.
Like basketball players. Like billionaires. Like rock stars. It doesn't
seem to matter how much of a jerk you are, so long as you are a BIG jerk
you've got a shot at being a hero. Few would argue that consistently scoring
40 points in a game of basketball or making a billion dollars taking chances
with other people's money is not truly the stuff of heroism. But then,
what is? Well, the way we're going to use the word hero this week is the
way it is described in the second definition in my American Heritage Dictionary
of the English Language: "A person noted for feats of courage or nobility
of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life."
Yeah. That's who I thought heroes were.
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Fifteen-year-old
Frank Kovacs, a Polish immigrant working in the coal mines of eastern
Pennsylvania, begins a correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt after he
assumes the presidency on September 14, 1901.
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Intellectually
and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized
sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to
form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.
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