{"product_id":"the-worlds-thinnest-fat-man-joe-taylor-9781604893830","title":"The World's Thinnest Fat Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn Excerpt: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome decades back, a Quaker named Richard Millhouse Nixon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewrote a book entitled \u003cem\u003eSix Crises. \u003c\/em\u003eAn opposition psychiatrist was\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003equick to pick up on this title and note that President Nixon saw his\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elife in typically manic-depressive fashion. Psychiatry and politics and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereligion aside, I suspect many of us perceive our lives just as that past-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresident did: if not in crises, at least in watersheds where we choose\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eone muddy river path over another; then fall onto or avoid a sunning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecottonmouth; where we either sadly stumble over or gladly hop over\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe mighty snag of regret.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo what did Josey learn from Mr. Garner's visit and those\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003euntimely deaths? I'd like to say-my friend, I'd truly like to say-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat he absorbed a myriad of lessons. But he's forever been unable to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eassimilate even a damned comic book moral, much less true epiphany's\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einspiration. In consequence he views himself not as a higher spiritual\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeing, not even as a genetically select, silken white rat capable of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econquering life's mazes, but rather as the world's thinnest fat man, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econtinually stunning crowds below by tossing off some dazzling jewel. . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joe Taylor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1604893834\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781604893830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Livingston Press at the University of West Al\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/27\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joe Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47520557138175,"sku":"9781604893830","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_444e7612-772e-4332-9508-8bb962d7ba1e.jpg?v=1762885792","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-worlds-thinnest-fat-man-joe-taylor-9781604893830","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}