The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man by David Von Drehle ISBN f9bc7bb6-7b34-4fc3-a922-6fedd62a2815, F9BC7BB6-7B34-4FC3-A922-6FEDD62A2815 instant download

The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man by David Von Drehle ISBN f9bc7bb6-7b34-4fc3-a922-6fedd62a2815, F9BC7BB6-7B34-4FC3-A922-6FEDD62A2815 instant download

One of our nation's most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life in the centenarian next door.When a veteran Washington journalist moved to Kansas, he met a new neighbor who was more than a century old. Little did he know that he was beginning a long friendship—and a profound lesson in the meaning of life. Charlie White was no ordinary neighbor. Born before radio, Charlie lived long enough to use a smartphone. When a shocking tragedy interrupted his idyllic boyhood, Charlie mastered survival strategies that reflect thousands of years of human wisdom. Thus armored, Charlie's sense of adventure carried him on an epic journey across the continent, and later found him swinging across bandstands of the Jazz Age, racing aboard ambulances through Depression-era gangster wars, improvising techniques for early open-heart surgery, and cruising the Amazon as a guest of Peru's president.David Von Drehle came to understand that...