Why should one want to buy and read this autobiography? This book is for you if you are one of those interested in any of the following: .Genealogy .The great depression .Education .Religion .Choirs .Choirmasters .Organists .Photoengraving .Printing .Advertising .Marketing .Sports .World War II .Selling .Teaching .Marriage .Children .Globalization .Patriotism All of the above was experienced by one man in his lifetime. A life of just one of the Great Generation as Tom Brokaw wrote of it. You may find many circumstances of a personal nature that are similar to what you have read here-one life, one American, one human being's experience.