Lament for a Father: The Journey to Understanding and Forgiveness. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Lament for a Father: The Journey to Understanding and Forgiveness

Marvin played catch with his father, Eli, only once--it didn't end well. Eli never laughed, rarely spoke with his son, and was periodically lambasted by his wife for his lack of ambition. How had a Harvard graduate failed to achieve all that he had once hoped for? Now an experienced investigative journalist, Marvin Olasky uncovers the true story of his father's past in his most personal work to date--facing Eli's pain and his own in order to understand and forgive. He follows Eli from his Orthodox Jewish childhood in Boston to his days as a commuter student at Harvard to his traumatic experiences in Germany following World War II to his embrace of Reconstructionist Judaism, describing the many cuts that led to Eli's "spiritual and psychological death"--and discovering what he himself owes to his parents.

Marvin Olasky is the former longtime editor-in-chief of World magazine. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church in America, the chairman of Zenger House, and the author of over twenty books, including Lament for a Father and The Tragedy of American Compassion. He was a Yale Daily News and Boston Globe reporter and has published articles in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fortune. He served as dean of the World Journalism Institute and for twenty-five years taught journalism at the University of Texas.