Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.13 (550 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307460282 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Since his first on-screen appearance in 1985 Senator Thompson has appeared in numerous movies, including Die Hard II, Days of Thunder and The Hunt for Red October;hewill appear in Walt Disney Picture’s Secretariat, set for release in October 2010. He is also well known for his portrayal of New York District Attorney Arthur Branch on the Emmy Award-winning NBC series Law & Order. He currently hosts The Fred Thompson Show, a daily radio talk show produced by Westwood One. He resides in McLean, Virginia with his wif
More than anyone else from those days though, Fred remembers his mom and dad, who taught him that kids are shaped most of all by the love and support they can take for granted. Teaching the Pig to Dance will delight everyone who admires Fred Thompson for his contributions to politics or for his work in movies and on TV, along with all those who just love to hear rollicking but unforgettable stories about growing up in a place where, as one of the local old timers put it, “We weren’t big enough to have a town drunk, so a few of us had to take turns.”. One day Fred and an accompl
Earlier in his career Thompson served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Tennessee, and in 1973 he served as Minority Counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee. First elected to the United States Senate in 1994, he served as Chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, as well as a member of the Finance Committee and the Select Committee on Intelligence. . FRED THOMPSON served eight years as a United States Senator from T
Fred Thompson Just Gets It Tduff In today's political environment, Fred Thompson sticks out like a sore thumb. I don't pretend to agree with all of his political positions, but that's what is so refreshing about Thompson's book: you don't have to agree with him politically to understand where it is that he came from, and what makes this book different from the usual self-indulgence that seems to be a requirement of books by politicians in this political environment is that Thompson does not tell you what to think, nor does he waste any ink describing what's wrong with . "A Charming and Folksy Tale of A Fine Man" according to Mike Robinson. Fred Thompson (US Senator from Tennessee for 8 years) has excelled as a straight-shooting politician and a respected and believable Hollywood actor. In "Teaching the Pig to Dance: A Memoir of Growing Up and Second Chances" he offers an amusing, winsome, instructive memoir loaded with homespun stories about his family (his father is described as the funniest man he ever knew). This amusing volume describes and outlines his rise from an aberrant young man to a formidable senator. He draws on his distinctive, folksy, and quirkish upbringin. Rick Shaq Goldstein said RICK "SHAQ" GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "SMALL TOWN VALUES & LOVE OF FAMILY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN POLITICS.". Though author Fred Thompson is a former U.S. Senator as well as a former co-star of Hollywood's long running television series "LAW AND ORDER and more than likely can fill a country barn with all his accumulated "name-dropping" stories Fred instead found it much more fulfilling to share with the world his humble background that started in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. He introduces his family tree in an almost "ah-shucks" manner that is dripping with love respect and the images of days gone by in an America that unfortunately doesn't seem to