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The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories

By: Donald Katz
Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
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The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories collects journalist Donald Katz's most fascinating profiles of people whose lives tell us something about business, adventure, sports, politics, culture, and in a brilliant, ancillary way, ourselves.

Katz's opening story and the title piece of the book offers a hilarious yet appropriately reverential look at 72-year old Reg Mellor, unparalleled "ferret legging" champion of Yorkshire and the world. Other characters who populate this book include fitness guru Jack LaLanne, legendary entrepreneur Paul Hawken, and master political cartoonist and inspired troublemaker Bill Mauldin.

While this collection contains portraits that are varied in scene and tone, their depictions of obsession, delusion, perseverance, creativity, and good-heartedness - the list could go on and on - remain a constant. Each of these stories conveys a sense of the strangeness, wonder, and oddity of life - a theme that provides a gravitational center to this multifarious selection drawn from 20 years of an award-winning nonfiction storyteller's body of work.

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This collection of articles provides a window through which I got a glimpse into the lives, personalities and philosophies of some really fascinating people I would never meet.
Each chapter is a new self-contained story, so the listener can choose which ones to listen to first. I would highly suggest leaving 'The King of the Ferret Leggers' for the last. It's one of the weakest ones, but I get that it's a fond memory for the author, so it's highlighted. It's a shame that the only story focusing on a woman was a rather superficial one about some born rich socialite and her parties.
My favorite stories (in no particular order) were:
• The Draft Dodger and the Democrats
• Drawing Fire
• Guru of the New Economy
• Great White Photographer
• Jack Lalaine is Still an Animal

The fact that this did not require a subscription to listen to made me appreciate it somewhat more.

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Disliked it all. Not even sure how it even made it into my library?? Automated freebie??

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