The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories
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About this book
The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories collects journalist Donald Katzs most fascinating profiles of people whose lives tell us something about business adventure sports politics culture and in a brilliant ancillary way ourselves. Katzs 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 twenty years of an award-winning non-fiction story-tellers body of work.
